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Actor Jack Lemmon (1925- 2001) was born on Feb. 8. One of Lemmon’s last roles was “Tuesdays With Morrie,” a made-for-TV movie adapted from sports journalist Mitch Albom’s book about a dying Jewish mentor, professor Morrie Schwartz. [[READMORE]] “I read the novel and I loved the character of Morrie,” Lemmon, then 74, told JTA. “I […]

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex, has angered some Orthodox rabbis with his latest attempt at pop-rabbinic culture: Kosher Jesus, a best-selling book that paints the history of Jesus in a Jewish context. In 1925, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise caused a maelstrom with a sermon about Jesus, based on what sounds like a Hebrew-language predecessor […]

Leonard Grossman has come up with a moving online tribute to his late mother, Trudel. On the blog, Trudel’s Truth, he publishes a series of her letters, translated from German, exactly 77 years after each one was written. Recently, Grossman offered a first person account explaining how the JTA Archive helped him verify details in […]

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