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No time to study Kabbalah? Try the coloring book.
The complex teachings of kabbalah can take years to learn, much less master. Why not start by coloring them in? Tzfat-based artist David Friedman has translated his vivid, psychedelic depictions of Jewish mystical teachings into the hipster diversion du jour. Imagine if the psychedelic poster artists from the 1960s and 70s had gotten really into…
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Love in the time of COVID? It happened for these couples
Dinah Jacobs’ and Larry Castle’s love story began in March, and by Rosh Hashanah, the two were engaged and living together. Lynn Kantor tried dating long distance, then decided her now- boyfriend, Danny Williger, was someone she could trust to include in her family pod. Alexa Bardov adopted a dog, then found her new boyfriend,…
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What the Facebook antitrust lawsuits might mean for hate speech
Antitrust lawsuits filed Wednesday against Facebook focused on what plaintiffs say is the improper use of consumer data by the social media giant and a monopolistic strategy of squashing competition. But while Facebook’s use of data has come under scrutiny over the years — including after the 2018 Cambridge Analytical scandal, during which users learned…
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Yavneh, the school that sued California to reopen, has now closed due to COVID-19 cases
Yavneh Hebrew Academy, an Orthodox day school that sued the state of California in August for permission to reopen, has become the latest to shut down after confirming a number of Covid-19 cases on its campus. Yavneh had been one of several Orthodox schools in the area operating as a camp during county-mandated school closures,…
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Orthodox Jews are leaving Lakewood for a neighboring suburb. How much will they change it?
You won’t see any synagogues driving around Jackson, N.J. But they’re there — at least 15 of them, hidden inside unassuming houses on wooded lots, according to Tzvi Herman, an Orthodox resident of the town. Though invisible to passersby, the synagogues are signs of the sudden growth of the Orthodox community in this spacious south…
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A case of ‘museum-going while Black’ tests the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ new director
In 2015, Matthew Teitelbaum left Toronto to head one of Boston’s foremost cultural institutions, the august 150-year-old Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). From the start, he wanted to see a significant culture shift. He was well on his way to accomplishing that when a racial incident threatened to derail his best efforts, and intentions….
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Elissa Slotkin: Biden’s pick of former general for defense secretary ‘feels off’
President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to be defense secretary is raising hackles among Democrats concerned that Austin would erode civilian control of the military. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, praised Austin’s experience in a Tuesday statement, but said that the nomination of a retired general for the traditionally civilian role…
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An attack on Jersey City Jews exposed a neighborhood’s deep rifts. One year later, a memorial shows how citizens are mending them
The 2019 shooting that claimed four lives at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey rocked several different communities. The city’s Satmar Hasidic Jews had been directly attacked. The non-Orthodox Jews who worshipped nearby were shaken and distraught. Residents of the largely Black and Hispanic neighborhood saw national media attention descend on their streets….
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Los Angeles Jewish schools won the right to reopen. Then COVID-19 struck again.
A lawsuit against the state of California filed by Jewish schools in the Los Angeles area has expanded their legal footing for in-person activities, enabling them to bring more students to campus even as coronavirus cases surge. But the schools have not escaped the record-setting spike in California that has continued apace into December, and…
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Joe Biden poured him a drink and he gave Jared Kushner an aliyah. Rabbi Levi Shemtov is optimistic about D.C.’s transition.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Some of Rabbi Levi Shemtov’s most prominent congregants are likely to leave his synagogue soon, but the Washington, D.C. rabbi isn’t sweating it. After all, Shemtov has been through decades of presidential transitions as Chabad’s main man in Washington, and even though this one is unfolding unusually, he’s confident he can continue…
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What a Jon Ossoff victory in Georgia would mean for Southern Jews
This election cycle has become a tale of two Georgias for the state’s Jewish community. In January’s run-off election, Jon Ossoff is poised to become the first Jewish Senator ever elected, not just in Georgia but from any Deep South state since Reconstruction. At the same time, this campaign season has seen the rise of…
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