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I Buried Hundreds of Jewish Books. Inside Each Was a Jewish Heart.

A long-awaited construction project at our Manhattan synagogue, Ansche Chesed, is about to begin. Off in the distance we can glimpse our expanded...

Jeremy Kalmanofsky

When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away from the synagogue. My dad was the...

As a newly graduated social worker 20 years ago, I worked in a kosher domestic violence shelter. Acquaintances would shock me by asking, “Is...

I have been in Jewish journalism long enough to have reported on the early days of the “continuity agenda.” And to realize that what was important...

(JTA) — April 29 marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau, the longest-operating Nazi concentration camp. A lesser-known part of...

“Le-tiferet Medinat Israel” — For the glory of the State of Israel — Gabriela Sztrigler Lew of Mexico City proudly declared, lighting one of...