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A ‘Bachelorette’ contestant this season is the great-great-grandson of the last chief rabbi of Kovno

Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapiro, the last chief rabbi of Kovno, died in its ghetto. His descendant is looking for love.

Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’ is coming to Chicago for the DNC — whether or not a pro-Israel march gets a permit

The installation will feature 10-foot-tall milk cartons with the faces of the eight Americans still captive in Gaza.

In rom-com musical ‘Sabbath Girl,’ an interfaith relationship takes center stage

Set on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side, the musical chronicles the relationship between Seth, an Orthodox Jewish writer and knish man, and Angie, an Italian-American gallerist.

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler ‘gave us the Olympics we have today’

Kamala Harris’ Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark

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

Max Lazar, Joc Pederson and Garrett Stubbs

For the third time ever, an MLB game featured a Jewish pitcher, catcher and batter at the same moment

Tom Reuveny, Jessica Fox, Artem Dolgopyat and Jemima Montag

All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

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

In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

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