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Natalie Portman’s debut children’s book makes 3 classic tales ‘gender-safe’

The Jewish movie star has re-gendered “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Three Little Pigs” and “Country Mouse and City Mouse.”

Argentine city holds a car show-inspired drive-in Rosh Hashanah service

Cordoba is the site of the country’s annual Rally Argentina car show and race event. A local congregation seized on the theme.

Shortened shofar blasts and last-minute sermon tweaks: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death changed Rosh Hashanah services

The news of the Jewish justice’s death broke like a wave over Jewish communities in the first moments of the new year or the last moments of the one just ending.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the first Jew and first woman to lie in state at the Capitol

2 UPenn kosher chefs lost their jobs because of COVID. Now they’re opening a kosher food truck to help the needy.

How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own

Brazilian Jewish schools raise $4 million in donations for scholarships

Hungarian Jews baking challah breads in front of the Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

Popular Israeli reality show ‘Goalstar’ to film its next season in the UAE

‘I miss you. And I love you’: What American rabbis are thinking as the Jewish new year dawns during the pandemic

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