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What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma

Younger generations can be deeply imprinted by the extreme life experiences that their ancestors endured, writes a psychotherapist and leader in the Jewish Renewal movement.

To welcome interfaith couples, this Conservative synagogue hired a cantor who’s allowed to wed them

Congregation Shirat Hayam in Massachusetts sheds light on one implication of a changing rabbinic marketplace.

A smiling elderly man overlooking Vermont foliage in the fall

A Greek Holocaust survivor in Vermont knows how to save humanity. He just needs us to listen.

The magical life of Albert Levis, a scholar of storytelling who has lived through his own improbable tale.

In these last months of 2023, I have noticed the Jewish ancestors in me more than ever

How students and teachers feel about AI in the Jewish classroom

This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

Conservative movement suspends its Israel gap-year program, citing budget woes and ‘recruitment challenges’

Churches in Israel and the West Bank are canceling Christmas celebrations due to the war

The exterior of a synagogue in Washington, DC

Suspect arrested in antisemitic attack outside Washington, DC synagogue

Rabbi David Stav, pictured in 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

A leading Religious Zionist rabbi says Israelis have reconnected with Judaism after Oct. 7. He hopes it will stick.

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