The majority of American Jews live outside of this country’s biggest cities. This series will tell the stories of Jewish Americans between the coasts — in small towns, rural communities, southern suburbs — where religious life is vibrant, layered, and too often overlooked.
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
All four of Nik Jakobs’ grandparents survived the Nazis. Now this Jewish cattleman is honoring them — and a shuttered Rust Belt synagogue — by building a new sanctuary and museum in rural Illinois
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