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JCRC has been extra busy these first few months of 2017 advocating on behalf of our community both here and in Israel. We hosted an extraordinarily well-attended and impactful Jewish Community Forum with support...

President Donald Trump did not attend the annual White House Passover Seder held on Monday night, a spokeswoman confirms to PEOPLE. His daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are both Jewish, also skipped the event,...

Pesach is known as the Festival of Freedom. For Jews who live in the Diaspora, this means freeing themselves from living in foreign lands amidst the gentiles and coming home to the Land of...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has released a congratulatory message to Turkey’s Jewish community and Jews all over the world who are marking the Passover religious festival this week. In a statement released on Tuesday, Erdoğan...

The Maccabeats, originally formed in 2007 as Yeshiva University’s student vocal group, have entertained and inspired hundreds of audiences worldwide, from Alabama to (New) Zealand and everywhere in between. Until now, they have been using...

Celebrity chef Pati Jinich grew up in Mexico City, where she spent Shabbat dinners at her bubbe’s house. “When we walked into her house,” Jinich fondly recalls of her grandmother, “the first thing she had...

A Jewish contestant on the Mexican version of MasterChef Junior didn’t push her faith to the back burner, even when it meant cooking with a treyf ingredient. Batia Bresca, a 13-year-old from Mexico City, recently made the...

If you’re Jewish and single, there’s a good chance you’re already well-acquainted with the dating app JSwipe. Over the weekend, the app is rolling out a new feature called “Explore,” which allows premium users...

In her 80 years, Janet Gastil has worn many hats and is a true renaissance woman. She has been a wife and mother, teacher, musician, realtor, and politician to name the most important ones… Janet...

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