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This Holiday is the Joyous follow-up to Yom Kippur
Today marks the first day of Sukkot, the weeklong Jewish festival that not only signals the end of the high holidays but holds both historical and seasonal significance, as well.
Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that...
‘Latin Night’ to raise funds for ‘Maria’
Westlake residents Mariely and Brett Luengo will host “Latin Night inside the Sukkah” at 7 p.m.
Oct. 8 at Kantina in Cleveland to raise funds for Chabad of Puerto Rico, to go to Hurricane Maria...
The Jews of the US Coast Guard: ‘Always ready’ during hurricane season
When Hurricane Irma menaced Florida last month, Rabbi Isaac Rosenberg was ready: The assistant rabbi at Miami Beach’s Congregation Ohev Shalom is also a pilot and officer with the US Coast Guard (USCG).
The nation’s...
Trump to decertify Iran nuke deal, impose ‘harsh sanctions’ on IRGC
US President Donald Trump is set to announce that the landmark Iranian nuclear deal signed in 2015 does not serve US national interests and that he will decertify but not withdraw from the accord.
The...
Hamas appoints West Bank terror chief as its deputy leader
Hamas on Thursday announced that top commander Saleh al-Arouri, who in recent years served as the terror group’s head of West Bank operations, will be appointed as the organization’s deputy political leader.
Arouri will thus...
Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
As a young man, Kazuo Ishiguro wanted to be a singer and songwriter. He played at folk clubs and went through several stylistic evolutions — including a purple, poetic phase — before settling into...
Edith Stein, the Jewish woman who became a Catholic Saint
In 1998, Pope John Paul II made one of his most contentious canonizations, elevating a German woman named Edith Stein to the status of saint. Olivia M. Espín explains how this Jewish woman became a...
Missing Jewish heritage, due to missing Jewish education
The last 200 years saw major events in the Jewish world. Jews gained citizenship; received secular educations as Jewish enlightenment spread through Europe; and saw Theodor Herzl’s Zionism stir the hope for a Jewish...
New Maltz exhibit on Jews, medicine to open
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood will open its new exhibit “Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America” on Oct. 10.
The exhibit tells the story of how Jews had to create...
Jubilee Celebration in Gush Etzion commemorates 50 years of Jewish life in Judea, Samaria,...
This year has seen multiple celebrations across Israel in commemoration of the jubilee or 50 year anniversary of the return of the Jewish people to the Judea, Samaria, the Golan and the Jordan Valley...