Dan Fellner
By Dan Fellner
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Fast Forward In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration keep their community’s story alive
The Texas city was briefly known as 'The Ellis Island of the West' thanks to Jacob Schiff
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News This northern Norway city has adopted a one-of-a-kind approach to observing Shabbat
The synagogue in Trondheim is marking its 100th anniversary in 2025
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News The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on earth’
Paul Cohen says the territory’s few Jewish visitors tend to find him. “My name just screams ‘Judaism’”
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News The Dominican Republic was a haven for Jews fleeing the Nazis. A museum project could tell that story.
Joe Benjamin, who grew up a refugee in “tropical Zion,” is pushing the Caribbean country’s government to fund the project, which he’s pitching as a tourist draw.
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News Aruba’s new rabbi comes out of retirement to lead a congregation in ‘paradise’
Alberto Zeilicovich was born in Argentina, led congregations in Colombia and the United States and had retired to Israel before taking the position
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News Why does an Episcopal church in an Alaskan town have a prominent Star of David window?
None of the residents of Sitka seem to have a definitive answer, but they do pass around a story that starts in 1899 and has helped lead to a local culture of coexistence
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Opinion The Gaza hostage crisis could forever change how American Jews relate to Israel — but it’s not too late to fix that
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: היסטאָריקערין וויווי לאַקס באַשרײַבט געשיכטע פֿון לאָנדאָנער ייִדישער פּרעסעVIDEO: Historian Vivi Laks tells history of the London Yiddish Press
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