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EST 1917

Last week, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency–the esteemed Jewish newswire–released a searchable web version of its complete archive, dating back to the early 1920s. The archive offers a remarkable (and remarkably thorough) look into U.S. and world Jewish history–in the form of up-to-the-minute newspaper dispatches. Sometimes the articles are short, telegram-like bursts, such as the 1923 story that tells […]

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“God pursues me everywhere,” the Jewish philosopher A.J. Heschel wrote. One of Heschel’s primary aims was to show people that spirituality could be found anywhere–not only in prayer or charity, but in every place we find ourselves and in every action we do. A number of new iPhone apps give us very simple, but very handy, ways to remember to […]

You’ve never not listened to music like this before. During the 49-day period from Passover to Shavuot, the time of counting the Omer, many Jews abstain from listening to music. (Like all things Jewish, there are variable customs–some only abstain from live music; others wait 33 days and then turn the music back on.) Y-Love, a black Orthodox Jewish M.C., recorded his 2008 album Count It using […]

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