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To Hope: Hospice Care In Line With Jewish Tradition

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” — Susan Sontag, from “Illness as Metaphor” Those who enter the kingdom of the sick often feel isolated, uncertain and fearful. Yet help is […]

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Closing With A Bang At Annual Jewish Film Festival

Strong final-week offerings include a meditation on Jews and Poles, Amos Gitai’s latest and a documentary on Jews living under the Shah

Fire Damages Historic Synagogue

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union nearly 25 years ago, the Jewish population of Grodno, in Belarus, like all others behind the former Iron Curtain, started to rebuild itself. Today, Grodno’s Great Choral Synagogue, one of the oldest in the former Soviet Union and the contemporary center of Jewish life in the industrial city […]

MLK, Mandela And The Jews

This Land Is …

The Skinny On ‘From Scratch’

Master Of The Turnaround

The Siren This Time

‘Generation War’ Hampered By Form

A Capital Of Culture

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