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Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse is a daughter of Holocaust survivors with a lot on her mind, including helping the women in Iran and fighting antisemitism.

OneTable is on a mission to help young adults establish and maintain a Shabbat practice by making Friday night dinners accessible, sustainable and valuable.

“There was a human being whose life I could save. No one else could. So I decided to say yes.” 

When it comes to the business of happiness, there’s no bigger expert than Harvard professor, author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks.

In a span of 24 hours, two Jews were shot in the same neighborhood. The details surrounding the shootings kept changing, which added to the anxiety.

So what is ChatGPT? It is basically a massive digitized library containing a significant portion of humanity’s cultural and scientific knowledge.

Black and his wife converted to Judaism in 2013, and, along with their children, they moved to Israel in 2016. Today, the family of nine lives in Beit Shemesh and are part of the Hasidic community. 

The founder shares his advice for his eventual successor, hopes for future generations and gratitude for his many partners, including Frank Sinatra.

While disillusioned “New Jews” are getting all the attention, there’s a generation of more traditional Jews who never needed a wake-up call.

In American society, college education can play a role comparable to that played by textual study in traditional Jewish communities. But for that to happen, colleges will need to emphasize critical thinking more explicitly and consistently than they currently do.