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Participants flock to Citi Field for the third annual Torah New York event, Sept. 23, 2019. Credit: Orthodox Union.

Thousands of learners connect with Torah and each other before High Holidays

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Torah took the mound at Citi Field as the Orthodox Union fielded a team of 29 internationally renowned scholars, who led classes on a wide array of 31 subjects for around 2,500 participants, at...

Walking in the footsteps of those who battled in 1948

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Members of the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli civilians are jointly commemorating the decisive battles of the 1948 War of Independence ahead of national celebrations of Israel’s 70th year of Independence. “When you study the...
Prayer and services are available to college students for free for the third year in a row, thanks to AEPi and Synagogue Connect. Credit: Pixabay.

For students venturing off-campus, program offers free High Holiday services

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Working with Synagogue Connect, Alpha Epsilon Pi—the world’s leading Jewish college fraternity—has established an online system to match college students from around the world looking for a congregation at which to spend the Jewish...
A volunteer in Kharkov, Ukraine, helps package High Holiday supplies for elderly Jews in need in the former Soviet Union. September 2018. Credit: JDC Photo.

Apples, honey and help to go to thousands of elderly Russian Jews

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Continuing a tradition started before the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and its network of volunteers will provide extra aid and traditional Rosh Hashanah...
Rabbi David Szychowski gives a lecture on Jewish topics in Lodz, Poland, June 2019. Photo by Natalia Soral.

Lodz, Poland hosts its first-ever Jewish festival

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The Polish city of Lodz hosted its first-ever Jewish celebratory event, “The Festival of Tranquility,” over the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Organized by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, in collaboration...
Women gather in Jerusalem under the auspices of an all-volunteer organization called Imahot L’Maan Imahot (“Mothers Supporting Mothers”), June 9, 2021. Credit: Courtesy

‘Day of Unity’ offers comfort, outreach for women who lost relatives on Lag B’Omer

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Dozens of women whose husbands, sons, brothers or fathers lost their lives in the crush on an overcrowded ramp at Mount Meron on Lag B’Omer joined together in Jerusalem last week in an emotional...

Bringing Purim joy to Ukrainian refugees

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A group of 28 Yeshiva University students on a humanitarian relief mission in Vienna brought smiles to the faces of hundreds of Jewish Ukrainian refugees this Purim with dancing, singing, food, games and crafts....
Chaim Luviner serving in the IDF's Armored Corps. Credit: Courtesy.

From the Holocaust to the IDF: Grandfather and grandson share a story of survival...

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As Israel prepared to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, a grandfather who survived the Nazi atrocities in Poland and his grandson shared a powerful story of survival and continuity. Chaim Luviner, born in 1933 in Poland,...
Moms for Liberty cofounders Tiffany Justice (left) and Tina Descovich speak at the parents-rights group's 2022 summit. Credit: Moms for Liberty. | Moms for Liberty

Moms for Liberty summit rescheduled to avoid Rosh Hashanah

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Moms for Liberty, a parents-rights group and Orthodox Jewish ally that the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a hate group, announced recently that its third annual Joyful Warrior Summit has been rescheduled to Aug. 28-31,...
UH volunteers together with Guy Lerer and staff of HaTzinor about to hand deliver the first gift cards.

New Humanitarian Dispatch Center Distributing Financial Aid Ahead of Holidays To People Hit By...

Israeli journalist Guy Lerer, from Channel 13’s HaTzinor television program, spearheaded a campaign to assist those in financial need as a result of the Coronavirus economic crisis. Utilizing money that was donated by people...