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Seeking Kin: At Brandeis, a new generation rekindles enduring bonds

Teenagers Mark Matsuki and Leon Feldman came to study in the Boston area and unintentionally regrafted family-like branches of a tree that first took root four generations ago in Russia.

Biden hosts Sukkot event

Vice President Joe Biden hosted Jewish leaders at a sukkah set up at his residence.

Give a woman a wig, her head is covered. Teach a woman to make wigs and she’s in business. This somewhat altered maxim is the apparent motto of “Helene Rosen” the pseudonym given to the hardcore wigmaker profiled in “She Goes Covered,” an investigative deep dive into the world of sheitels, or wigs worn by some Orthodox Jewish women after they […]