Ben Harris

is the managing editor of My Jewish Learning, where a version of this essay first appeared.

From Ben Harris

United States

She survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19. What is this 107-year-old’s secret?

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Benjamin Schaeffer, 58, hero subway conductor who battled transit authority over Jewish holiday

Global

Coronavirus-free South African nursing home says Kaddish, names babies for those under lockdown

Joe Biden

United States

Biden would keep US Embassy in Jerusalem, his foreign policy adviser says

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Paul Shelden, 79, music educator who founded instrument company

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Ernest Einzig, 97, Purple Heart winner who left behind over 100 descendants

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Noach Dear, 66, former New York City councilman and State Supreme Court judge

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Salomon Podgursky, 84, lived a life of resilience after the Holocaust

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John Adler, polymath descended from Hasidic royalty

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Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, 84, antiwar gadfly unafraid of flouting Jewish mainstream

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