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When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the city’s southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei ...
If ever there was a synagogue that’s earned the right to throw itself a birthday shindig, it’s this elegant and intriguing ...
A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...
A man set the door of a synagogue alight and a group of protesters stormed an Israeli restaurant in Melbourne on Friday night ...
One friend told me last year that she could never afford health insurance and worked full-time until she was 75. She was rarely ill. But since she stopped working, her health has been a challenge. She ...
The Yigdal setting is paired with a new recording of Hashkiveinu, sung to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. Performed by NLS cantorial leads David Djemal and Yoav Oved, ...
Gil Hoffman of Honest Reporting visits communities in Colorado for a discussion on ‘Peace, Politics and Propaganda’.
While summer sun is shining on Northeast Ohio, it’s the perfect moment to start thinking ahead – not to snow shovels and icy ...
A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before ...
The Jewish case against the projected reform of the calendar by the insertion of “blank days” which would make the Sabbath a movable day in relation to the week, was explained to-day to the ...
Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee: A classic quintet of fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar and bass, the band has a deeply rooted traditional sound. 7 p.m., Fifth Street Farms, 1517 Fifth St., Berkeley.
The Jewish calendar has many inspirational holidays. But what is unclear is how, or even whether, the various holidays of the year integrate together.