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A month after our synagogue was attacked, the hardest part has been everything that came after
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (736+ words) The executive director of Michigan's Temple Israel reflects on the quiet, complicated reality of life after March 12. It has been a month since March 12 and there is a story unfolding at Temple Israel that most people would not be aware…...
I lost my dad at 12 " and found my Jewish identity in the spaces he left behind
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (620+ words) A teen grapples with grief, emotional abuse and isolation " and discovers Judaism as a source of connection. This article was produced as part of'JTA's Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on…...
National support group for interfaith Jewish families guts staff amid funding crisis
3+ day, 33+ min ago (880+ words) 18 Doors now has four people on staff, down from 15 last year. A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall. 18 Doors announced on March 31 that it had "significantly" reduced its staff…...
Mordecai Kaplan wanted Jews to choose Judaism. Why they didn't was the bane of his life.
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (564+ words) A new biography explores the lasting influence and unfinished business of the founder of Reconstructionism. Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, "comes closer than any other movement or school of thought to articulating the meaning…...
Jewish families and a rabbi ask to join lawsuit to block Oklahoma Jewish charter school
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (660+ words) I am passionate about Jewish education," said a Tulsa rabbi. But the mixing of religion and government creates opportunities for religious coercion." A rabbi, a Jewish mother who invokes her family's Holocaust history, and a Jewish teenager are among seven…...
Mamdani wishes Rikers Island inmates 'Chag Pesach Sameach' in Passover seder letter
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (400+ words) When 150 inmates of Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail complex, attended Passover seders on Wednesday night, copies of a printed letter awaited them at their seats. The letter, written by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wished its readers a "Chag Pesach…...
A lost novel from 1943 predicted the Holocaust. Now, it has been recovered.
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (853+ words) Friedrich Torberg depicted a fictional concentration camp while he was losing at least 15 members of his family. As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling…...
Graham Platner to host Maine Passover seder as polarizing Senate candidate expands Jewish outreach
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1318+ words) The Democratic hopeful also shared his "direct family connection to Judaism" as Jewish groups have expressed concerns. U. S. Senate candidate Graham Platner will host a Passover seder with Jewish community leaders Thursday in Maine, including the state chair of the liberal…...
Jewish tradition is a polemic against loneliness " on Passover and the rest of the year
1+ week, 3+ day ago (254+ words) New people around our "table" push us away from moral and spiritual complacency, writes an educator at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. It is a lonely time to be a North American Jew. A month after Purim, the…...
Chicago's new Jewish high school plucks leader from Florida day school
1+ week, 6+ day ago (639+ words) The Davis School has also secured a still-under-construction building in downtown Chicago. Months after unveiling plans for a new Jewish high school in downtown Chicago, the project's founders have found their inaugural head of school and secured a still-under-construction building…...