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Detroit JCC closes a major facility, citing membership decline and COVID hardship

With a declining membership and too big a building, the health club’s long-term prospects were grim.

By Danny Schwartz September 30, 2020 2:44 pm

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, left, visit the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece with members of the local Jewish community on Sept. 28, 2020. (Giannis Papanikos/AFP via Getty Images)

Mike Pompeo’s Yom Kippur visit to Thessaloniki posed ‘dilemma’ for Greek Jews

Hosting the secretary of state on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar was a difficult decision. But the city’s head rabbi says it had enormous significance.

September 29, 2020 6:24 pm

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‘Avoidance is no longer an option’: This Yom Kippur, rabbis across the country focused their sermons on racial injustice

With no shortage of current events to mine, spiritual leaders chose to call on their white congregants to act rather than merely acknowledge racism in America.

September 29, 2020 5:19 pm

Bibi Shapiro, the 6-year-old whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral, sang at Central Synagogue’s Yom Kippur services

By Philissa Cramer September 29, 2020 3:32 pm

Tehran

‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity

By Lior Zaltzman September 25, 2020 4:44 pm

An Orthodox Jewish multiracial family in Montana wants to break taboos about adoption

By Josefin Dolsten September 24, 2020 3:59 pm

Kibitz is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the day

By Marcy Oster September 24, 2020 12:33 pm

How to host a socially distanced break-fast this Yom Kippur

By Shannon Sarna September 23, 2020 5:30 pm

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Natalie Portman’s debut children’s book makes 3 classic tales ‘gender-safe’

By Gabe Friedman September 23, 2020 2:24 pm

Argentine city holds a car show-inspired drive-in Rosh Hashanah service

By JTA Staff September 22, 2020 12:37 pm

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