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At the occasion of World Philosophy Day 2017, UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme will also associate itself with the 2017 Ciudad de las Ideas, organized by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Andrés Roemer, in...

Unlike several other Maryland counties, Frederick County Public Schools is unlikely to consider opening schools on two major Jewish holidays. Both options scheduled to be presented Wednesday to the Frederick County Board of Education keep...

LAWRENCE — The history of Midwest Jews is an area ripe for scholarship, and the University of Kansas is well-placed to be a center of such study, according to a researcher who has begun...

Peter Moshe Shamah bemoans the lack of ties between young Jews and the arts. “The modern Jewish experience is just not as attuned to the arts as it used to be,” said Shamah, who...

The devastating wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties this week have caused death, injuries and destruction for miles around — but they have also brought out the best in people wanting to lend a...

Eighteen Holocaust survivors from Atlanta recently received free hearing aids, thanks to an initiative by Peachtree Hearing and Jewish Family & Career Services. Two years ago audiologist Melissa Wikoff of Peachtree Hearing in East Cobb heard about a...

There have been dozens of accounts of Jewish communities locally, nationally and worldwide rallying to help victims of recent tragedies, both man-made and natural. Tallied together, the need seems overwhelming but the Jewish reaction...

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...

South Floridians have opportunities to exercise, get educated and wear pink for a good cause during breast cancer awareness days taking place at local Jewish community centers this month. Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization supporting young Jewish...

Theater director Mira Hirsch likes to keep busy. A longtime fixture on the Atlanta theatrical scene, Hirsch founded the Jewish Theatre of the South, whose closure after 13 seasons at the Marcus Jewish Community Center...