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Culture Spirituality or intellectualism? An age-old High Holiday debate
Jewish history has always carried a dichotomy between seeking inspiration and pursuing Torah learning
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Fast Forward Will federal security grants require synagogues to cooperate with ICE? Concerns are running high.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs says concerns are valid but urges synagogues to apply anyway because objections may be settled before recipients must formally agree to the conditions
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Holy Ground Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright built only one synagogue. It’s now a growing congregation.
Designed to echo Sinai, Frank Lloyd Wright’s only synagogue now houses a flourishing community — defying demographic trends and architectural odds
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Holy Ground This small, stubborn Appalachian synagogue is defying the odds — and so is its new rabbi
In Charleston, West Virginia, a century-old congregation is betting that a 30-something rabbi with two little kids can keep its doors open for decades
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Holy Ground He grew up Christian. Now he’s sleeping in the synagogue that sparked his conversion.
In a small Ohio town, a shuttered sanctuary sparked one man’s conversion — and a mission to preserve America’s overlooked Jewish past
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Holy Ground This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism.
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
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News Rabbis can now endorse political candidates. But will they?
A new IRS policy lets clergy back political figures without losing tax-exempt status — but many Jewish leaders say politics doesn’t belong in the pulpit
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Fast Forward DHS releases $94 million of security grants for Jewish institutions as remainder of funding stalls
“DHS must urgently release the additional NSGP supplemental funds,” said Lauren Wolman, the director of federal policy and strategy at the Anti-Defamation League
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