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Looking Forward A handcrafted Torah ark perished in the L.A. wildfires. My dad’s was seeking a new home.
A family treasure will accompany Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center on their travels
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Fast Forward How Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz’s biblical bickering explains the MAGA divide on Israel
Debating Israel and Iran, Carlson and Cruz got hung up on a verse from Genesis. Who read it right?
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Culture How the closing of a website for Yom Kippur confessions explains the internet
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Fast Forward From Hostages Square, High Holiday prayers aim to transcend Israel’s fractured politics
“I felt like this place needed prayers,” said Anat Sharbat, known as the unofficial rabbi of the square
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Politics A mezuzah in a Harris-Emhoff White House? It might not be the first.
Doug Emhoff said he'd put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
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