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Scientists at Hebrew University are helping to raise Israel’s first sturgeon population at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee. Female ...

How do you help…?

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Now I Just Need a Shomer Shabbas Computer to Read These Stories

If a shomer shabbas toothbrush wasn’t enough for you, can you try a shomer shabbas lamp or one of the ...

Jewish Magic

A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...

Pentateuchs for Prisoners

Recently, we received a letter in the office from a person in jail, asking if we can send him a ...

A Vice President, a Sacred Space

I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...

Making Ties, Cutting Hair

Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...

The First Jewish Food

Wikipedia bouncing is one of my favorite things to do. If we use “surfing” to describe crawling the web, just ...

Jews and Money

A substantial look at how the ailing economy means that donations to social action agencies are down as demands are ...

Snoozing on the Shoulders of Giants

This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...

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