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I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

An Israeli rabbi who travels abroad to circumcise Jewish babies wonders why Ireland is cracking down on a ritual sacred for Jews.

Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx

The influential family now boasts tens of thousands of members, including leading Hasidic rabbis and countless descendants who don’t share the family surname.

Teen Fellowship

In remote Greenland, a NYC yeshiva kid becomes an ‘Arctic citizen’

A summer of research where the sun never sets taught the author to see her Jewish identity through the eyes of curious others.

For the first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, new liturgy and traditions mourn a fresh tragedy

Doug Emhoff installed mezuzahs at the Vice President’s Residence. What happens to them when he moves out, or up?

Isaiah Rothstein, Orthodox rabbi focused on diversity and inclusion, takes the helm at Greenpoint Shul

Why some synagogues are screening ‘Legend of Destruction,’ a 2021 film about the Second Temple, on Tisha B’Av this year

Meet the teenaged girl who read the Talmud in just 2.5 years, flouting gender and speed norms

Illustration of two men studying texts in prison

2 incarcerated men wanted to convert to Judaism. This rabbi helped them do it.

How the war in Gaza is changing the Jewish summer camp experience for counselors and campers

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