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Redefining Modern Dance

New York's 92nd Street YM-YWHA helped broaden American dance to embrace multiculturalism and diversity.

Seize the Day School

One man's struggle with sending his daughter to day school.

Adopted Children, Conversion, and the Bar/Bat Mitzvah

For converted children, bar/bat mitzvah is a time for affirming their connections with Judaism.

History of the Reform Movement

America's largest Jewish denomination, Reform began in 19th-century Germany.

Can Israel Help American Jews Recall Their Own Forgotten Heroes?

Now that my previous blog established to everyone’s complete satisfaction that Louis Marshall ought to be considered a paramount figure in the ...

Secular Jewish Literature in Ukraine

Jewish literature flourished in Ukraine in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Salamone Rossi & Synagogue Choral Music

A Renaissance composer who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy

Hayim Nahman Bialik

The Jewish national poet.

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