Faith under persecution: Yad Vashem exhibit on keeping the Jewish calendar in the Shoah opens

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the ...

On Instagram, ‘Rabbinic Fit Check’ is a look book for Jewish clergy

Rabbi Jamie Field, the director of education at Beth El Temple Center, a Reform synagogue in Belmont, Massachusetts, was ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

David Aschkenas captures Jewish history in photo exhibit at Rodef Shalom

David Aschkenas may be one of the few people in the world to photograph both the Butler County Fair and a synagogue from the ...
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1835 – The Journey of the Gaza Synagogue Doors from Ruin to Refuge in Hebron

1835 The Journey of the Gaza Synagogue Doors: From Ruin to Refuge in Hebron ...
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At a former driving school, Kehillat Harlem plants roots for Jewish life uptown

The “Yes You Can” driving school is no more, but the sign that still hangs over its former storefront in Central Harlem is ...
The Jewish Exponent

Conflict at the Touro Synagogue

Several decades ago, my wife and I were married under the candlelit chandeliers of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The congregation’s longtime rabbi, Theodore Lewis, performed the ...
The Forward

Why Jews bury books like they bury the dead

For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There are no eulogies. We lower tattered prayer books, weathered bibles, Passover ...