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This year, Hanukkah has special meaning for the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda. Hanukkah is not a major holiday like Shabbat or ...

Many of us had not seen each other for decades. Most of them I barely recognized. It was the 40th reunion ...

I love to travel. If I could I would be always either in the midst of traveling or preparing for ...

I’ve lived in big cities like Los Angeles, and small towns in the Mississippi Delta. I’ve been part of communities ...

In honor of our 18th anniversary tribute dinner, we launched the photography campaign #HumansofJOFA. Modeled on the famous (and oft-replicated) ...

In Jewish tradition, sitting shiva is a trust fall.

I have always found it difficult to romanticize the tale of right and might that belongs to the Maccabees.  I ...

No matter how much money each of us donated yesterday on what has come to be known as Giving Tuesday, ...

As the calendar flips to December, nightfall comes ever earlier, and many of us don our winter coats for the ...

Thanksgiving 2015: We had a full house down here in Jackson, Mississippi, with all of our kids home for the ...

The AIDS epidemic began slowly, but one by one, members of our synagogue, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, as well as many ...

As a convert, I have always felt a special responsibility to actively choose Judaism. Each new choice I make reminds ...

Many of you will be hitting the roads for holiday travel this time of year, and will have ample time ...

Hanukkah is coming. It’s time to tell stories about armed resistance against oppression. Children will read about the five brave ...

On Thanksgiving morning when I entered a large grocery store in Wicker Park, Chicago, I was transported back to a ...