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Torah Portion: B’ray’sheet
2+ min ago (1490+ words) Or if you prefer — Bang! In the beginning God creates the heavens — the universe — something very, very, very big. And the earth — something very, very, very small in relationship to the universe. Thus, immediately establishing that this world is something…...
Waves of antisemitism hit Hillel of San Diego the day after Oct. 7
17+ hour, 23+ min ago (390+ words) By Karen Parry in San Diego Just like 9/11, I will forever remember where I was and what I was doing on 10/7. I think that is how it will be for a lot of us. And while we all watched in…...
Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County Hires New Rabbi
48+ min ago (795+ words) In the spring, Rabbi Jon Cutler retired from Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County. It was the conclusion of a 43-year rabbinical career and an 11-year tenure at Beth Israel. To find a successor to Rabbi Cutler, the congregation conducted…...
Philadelphia Family Uncovers Grandfather’s Secret History of Saving Jews
58+ min ago (996+ words) How did a country as small and poor as Albania in the 1940s emerge from the Holocaust with a larger Jewish population than before the war, a statistic no other European country matched? The country’s resident population of Jews swelled from…...
Aliki Rzepka recalled as cofounder of The Agnon School
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (806+ words) The Harold Grinspoon Foundation recently announced a $50 million matching grant through its JCamp 180 program, which helps Jewish nonprofit camps thrive well into the future. Karen Haiman Schenkel, age 81, passed away peacefully on Oct. 6, 2026. She was born on Dec. 16, 1942 in Cleveland....
Remembering ‘MOVE' as American Religion
35+ min ago (171+ words) Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. The city of Philadelphia murdered six adults and five children to protect itself from MOVE, a Black liberationist religious community city officials and law enforcement deemed a…...
Listen: Three years after Oct. 7, some US Jews want to carry guns to synagogue
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (801+ words) © 2026 The Christian Century. Three years after Oct. 7, some US Jews want to carry guns to synagogue Shortly after October 7, 2023, a group of men at the Silver Spring Jewish Center in Maryland devised a plan to arm the synagogue during prayer…...
Shofar Blowing In India
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (668+ words) Categories: Lessons In Emunah / In Print September 18, 2020, 12 PM ET Our son Eliyahu Yeshaya, already known to you from previous articles, adores the outdoors. He has a dream to fly to Mongolia which is mostly unspoiled by humans. He wants to…...
Rick Recht Brings High Energy to the High Holy Days
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (879+ words) Jewish rock music is a relatively new concept among American Jews but has found its way into traditional services as a way to connect people to their faith. Rick Recht, song leader and legendary Jewish rock star, grew up idolizing…...
Blowing the shofar can be a dangerous exercise in chutzpah
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (1294+ words) That’s what I remember: my sister calling out for someone to hold my tongue. I remember how my vision turned black, how my knees buckled and my body collapsed — a thud onto the bimah like the drop of a heavy…...