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Seeking Kin: A friend’s Holocaust trauma sparks a Jewish soul

Recalling her childhood friendship with the girl across the street fills Rozanne Dittersdorf with immense sadness — but also deep gratitude for helping shape the former New Jerseyan’s Jewish identity.

Data: A Love Story

, in-demand internet consultant and math whiz had experienced one too many disastrous JDates. After one particularly awful one—on which the guy started taking phone calls from his wife—Webb went home, settled down with a bottle of wine, and began creating order out of online dating chaos. First she created a series of male JDate profiles so […]

Efrat Gosh: The Israeli Edith Piaf

Eliciting comparisons to Edith Piaf is no small feat for a performer. And yet Israeli chanteuse Efrat Gosh is doing it time and time again. Maybe it’s the playful flirtatiousness of her performance that earns her the compliment, or the shamelessly romantic air that permeates her every refrain and high note. And her distinctively throaty croon and inventive vintage […]

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Seeking Kin: A friend’s Holocaust trauma sparks a Jewish soul

Data: A Love Story

Efrat Gosh: The Israeli Edith Piaf

Empire halts production for a day, leading to fears of kosher chicken shortage

Locust swarm crosses from Egypt into Israel

Vienna university offers rare melting pot for European Jews

Diane von Furstenberg, fashion icon and Holocaust museum supporter

Friday Five: Seth MacFarlane, Yityish Aynaw, Dov Hikind, Sheryl Sandberg, Arafat Jaradat

Lena Dunham on Purim, Jew Jokes, and her favorite Jewish things

President of Reconstructionist seminary to step down

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