Religion

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

The influential family now boasts tens of thousands of members, including leading Hasidic rabbis and countless descendants who don’t share the family surname.

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In remote Greenland, a NYC yeshiva kid becomes an ‘Arctic citizen’

A summer of research where the sun never sets taught the author to see her Jewish identity through the eyes of curious others.

For the first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, new liturgy and traditions mourn a fresh tragedy

Congregations, rabbis, scholars and musicians are responding to Oct. 7 and the war in Gaza with liturgy and rituals that draw a connection between the traditional meaning of the Tisha B’Av fast day — which begins Monday night at sundown — and current anguish.