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Following my mother’s footsteps through Romania

The signs of my family’s Jewish community are almost completely erased from their village in Romania, but I could still hear the echoes.

On her 90th birthday, the Jewish origin story of Betty Boop

Boop, created by Max Fleischer, once made a cameo appearance in an Allen Ginsberg poem.

As the corona crisis continues, our kids could use some Tchaikovsky

Despite the anti-Semitism of certain composers, we do our children a disservice by deleting these masterpieces out of our cultural memory.

What Seth Rogen’s new movie gets right and wrong about the history of pickling

The true history of American pickles is one of murder, moral outrage and scandal.

On the internet, no one knows if you’re atoning

As high holidays move to Zoom, one woman reflects on her prescient choice to pray online last year.

My aunt’s Tunisian couscous with beef I #TweetYourShabbat

Why isn’t climate change a bigger issue for the Orthodox?

The Torah tells us to protect the earth, and yet Orthodox Jewish voices are absent from the conversation on climate change.

No camp this year? The Shalom Hartman Institute steps up to the plate

Summer was still rewarding for the teens studying with top Hartman scholars in a pilot program for emerging Jewish leaders.

No streaming, no singing: here’s how High Holidays will work in Modern Orthodox synagogues

“Our goal is for everyone to have a High Holiday experience: in the building, in the parking lot, or at home.”

Toronto Polish-language newspaper blames Jews for pandemic

The article also claimed that Jews were responsible for the creation of ISIS and called Israel “an emanation of the Devil himself.”

Trump’s pick for German ambassador called Muslim refugees ‘invaders’

“They’re coming to benefit, to consume, to establish themselves, inside other people’s countries with the goal of turning Europe to an Islamic state.”

Was a liberal Orthodox rabbi too ‘pro-Israel’ to head a Berkeley seminary?

Was Rabbi Daniel Lehmann too pro-Israel to head a Berkeley seminary?

My Orthodox friend hasn’t kissed his fiancee. But I have.

Should I tell him that she was bad in bed?

Delaware to require teaching of the Holocaust, genocide

The bill was signed into law last month and must be implemented for the 2021-22 school year.

Philadelphia Jewish Federation: We won’t work with local NAACP because of ‘anti-Jewish’ posts

Rodney Muhammad “still has yet to fully apologize for his most recent actions,” the federation said.

Let Eric Andre, the most subversive comedian working today, replace Ellen DeGeneres

A new online petition suggests we cancel Ellen, but renew “Ellen” with a new host — supremely subversive comedian Eric Andre.

A USC student leader resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’

USC student leader Rose Ritch resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’

Ex-Obama health official gives Coronavirus Rosh Hashanah pep talk

Andy Slavitt, host of a pandemic podcast, encouraged synagogues to reinvent rituals and consider in-person gatherings held outdoors.