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Is it time to hit the panic button in our synagogues?
After FBI warns of 'credible threat,' 60% of preschoolers at my synagogue didn't show up this morning
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Is Kanye’s antisemitic vitriol seeping into our schools and streets?
A superintendent's vague condemnation falls flat in a district with its own real problems
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‘Things have souls’: How a handwritten letter from 1879 became a very special bar mitzvah tallit
This tallit weaves multiple generations and cherished family artifacts into its fabric
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The raw truth about ‘The Raw Truth About Lox’
A parable as much about how the internet works as how food memories are made
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What you and I are repenting for this Yom Kippur
For the sins we committed by... holding grudges... ranting... mistrusting... and being impatient
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Eggs or meat? More lessons from my weekly shift at a local food pantry
Oatmeal and black beans are big sellers, diapers are like gold and, it turns out, so are eggs
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How do you turn Saturday into Shabbat?
A local cafe owner closed for the Jewish day of rest. Revenue is down 12% but his spirit is up
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“Three Minutes”: a 1938 film shot in Poland sparks connection among 300 descendants of a lost Jewish community
The faces of the children follow you in the film, hauntingly, because you'll never know most of their names.
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What I learned about the Holocaust playing a game called ‘Gestapo’
There is no good strategy for choosing when to risk family, community, religion, civil liberties and life itself
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What I learned moderating a congressional candidate debate
They like seeded bagels. They love Israel and hate BDS. And one of them can't seem to follow a countdown clock
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The big question nobody’s asking about Andrew Yang’s new political party
‘Not Left, Not Right. Forward.’ may be a losing political formula but its not a bad mantra for a news organization
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