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Each week, Jews all over the world read a portion of the Torah, advancing through the stories like an episodic TV show. And each week, Julie Seltzer, a Torah scribe and Jewish educator, bakes a challah in a different shape–inspired by the Torah portion of the week. Sometimes the creative bread is funny, like the red heifer (with […]

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What will Jerusalem look like in 100 years? That was the question posed by Jerusalem’s Association of Planning and Conservation. Filmmakers and animators around the world then created visual answers and posted them on YouTube. A jury reviewed these creations and named one of them, David Gidali and Itay Gross’s “Secular Quarter #3” (right), the winner of […]

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  Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an African-American singer, actor, and activist who sang the songs of his ancestors–and ours. Robeson learned Hebrew from his father, a Christian preacher, and he became captivated by the Jewish stories and hymns he heard in childhood, several of which had been adapted by blacks in the American South. In Robeson’s professional life, Jewish songs […]

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