3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (912+ words) Leaders of a center for rabbinic innovation reflect on the sacred work that happens on Rosh Hashanah, and far beyond the pulpit. On Rosh Hashanah morning, a rabbi stands in front of you, in front of God, having spent weeks…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1133+ words) Sergii Gurbych, who developed a tool to read handwritten Yiddish and Hebrew texts, said he wanted to “know more about the world where my grandfather lived.” VILNIUS, Lithuania — At a family reunion in California in 2013, Felicita Trueblood discovered a portal…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (854+ words) The stories Jewish Americans were following on the eve of the attacks foreshadowed some of the conflicts, anxieties and hopes that would shape the next quarter-century. On Sept. 10, 2001, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that New York’s Central Synagogue was reopening....

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (799+ words) Andrew Waxman set out to write a Yelp for synagogues, and discovered the Jewish community’s diversity. Reporting on the Jewish community is a lot like ornithology, except instead of birds the goal is to describe the dress, the habits and…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (267+ words) A blueprint to guide Jewish educators and Jewish Community Center workers in carrying out their common objectives of Jewish education for all age groups was published today for the purpose of... Guide on Jewish Education Issued; Lists Educational Objectives A…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (300+ words) Plus, a Kandinsky painting that was returned to Jewish heirs is being auctioned. -- The post Jewish leader slams Bruce Blakeman for ‘Islamophobia’ after post of Hochul in a hijab appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency. A version of this piece…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (1049+ words) Michael Kimmel’s new book traces how first-generation Jews created the dolls, games, comics and stories that shaped generations of children. On Saturday mornings in the 1960s and ’70s, instead of going to synagogue, I watched cartoons. Like millions of other American kids,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (302+ words) Plus, the contentious Maimonides Medical Center merger goes through in Brooklyn. -- The post Jews.com is not what you think it is appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency. A version of this piece first ran as part of the New…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) Ramat Hasharon mayor says the city is committed to pluralism and tolerance. TEL AVIV – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue on Sunday in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1554+ words) The novelist’s dispatches from his 1932 journey through America are newly available in Italian. In September 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the United States for Yiddish-speaking Jews like…...