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The Synagogue Review

A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...

The Hope (free mp3!)

My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...

Hostile Games

The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...

Haisdic ‘Fixer’ Runs for City Council

Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...

Jews Discovered

The headline says it all: “Jews discovered on Upper West Side”

Magic Jewish Fences

Two things: first of all, Tamar Fox’s article on Jewcy about the struggle to erect an eruv — or what ...

Doña Gracia Nasi

A philanthropist, known as the heart of her people.

Salome Alexandra

The first Hasmonean Queen of Judea.

The First Jewish President

Toni Morrison famously referred to Bill Clinton as the “first black president,” writing that he displayed “almost every trope of ...

Jesus and Me

Benyamin Cohen’s new book My Jesus Year is nearing its release date, and the official website has just gone up. ...

Rabbi Steinsaltz Takes on the Olympics

Remember when all of Jewish Law was ruled by a committee of 71 judges, each of whom were able to ...

Remembering A Mystic: Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi

Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi, aka the Arizal or just the Ari (1534-1572). He was the ...