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Lag b’Omer is traditionally a day of Jewish weddings. What will happen under social distancing?

The Jewish calendar has discouraged weddings during the peak of pandemic restrictions.

By Philissa Cramer May 11, 2020 4:57 pm

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Benjamin Balint wins 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Kafka book

His nonfiction work “Kafka’s Last Trial” is an account of the controversial case that determined the fate of the writer’s manuscripts.

May 11, 2020 3:23 pm

Jerry Stiller was a mensch. He could act with the best of them, too.

Celebrities typically disappear after interviews. Jerry Stiller wasn’t typical.

May 11, 2020 2:46 pm

COVID-19 hasn’t stopped one of Israel’s national passions: folk dance

By Marcus M. Gilban May 8, 2020 4:00 pm

Showtime’s president of entertainment is a cantor on the side. He’s had to adapt to singing on Zoom.

By Curt Schleier May 8, 2020 2:07 pm

Liberty Heights

‘Liberty Heights’ perfectly captured midcentury American Jewish life. It’s free on YouTube.

By Benjamin Resnick May 8, 2020 10:00 am

Many people are having their conversions to Judaism delayed during the pandemic. Others are going ahead with them in creative ways.

By Josefin Dolsten May 7, 2020 5:29 pm

Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2020 4:06 pm

How Tel Aviv creatives made art out of the coronavirus crisis

By Karen Chernick May 7, 2020 2:42 pm

Julian Edelman

Patriots’ Julian Edelman is helping raise money for Holocaust survivors

By Gabe Friedman May 7, 2020 12:33 pm

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