The Portugal Most Travelers Never See: A Journey Through Sephardic Heritage
Delia duPlessis
October 13, 2026
Category
Congregations
The Pandemic’s First High Holy Days Season Has Synagogues Wondering: Will People Pay Dues?
Ben Sales, JTA
August 1, 2020
Across the country, synagogues are bracing for a significant reduction in revenues.
There are 49 Jews Left on the British Island of Jersey. The Pandemic has Pushed their One Synagogue to the Brink
JTA
July 25, 2020
The community, with a formal membership of only 49 and an average age of over 70, has had to negotiate the coronavirus crisis as its membership continues to shrink.
The Diaspora may be moving, but it isn’t going away any time soon
Joel Kotkin
November 10, 2006
The changes in the Diaspora community.
There’s no business like shul business
Sarah Price Brown
October 26, 2006
The retirement of Rabbi Moshe Rothblum after 35 years on the bimah at Adat Ari El.
American Jews are learned in everything — except Jewish texts
Rabbi Yosef Liebowitz
October 19, 2006
The American Jewish community is one of the most learned and sophisticated communities in Jewish history – in everything except Jewish texts. As Jews, we are illiterate.
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Amar to visit Los Angeles
Amy Klein
October 19, 2006
Israel\’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Amar to visit Los Angeles; Ask A (Different) Rabbi; Inquiring Minds Want to Know.
Grupo Hispano celebrates a buen 5767
Roberto Loiederman
October 19, 2006
Beth Shalom has become the spiritual home of a growing group of Hispanics who have recently converted, or are in the process of doing so.
Water and pumpkins mark eco-friendly Sukkot
Jane Ulman
October 5, 2006
True Joy Through Water, a new outreach program created by Canfei Nesharim (\”the wings of eagles\”), an Orthodox environmental organization, it\’s designed to educate about the importance of water, its imperiled state and ways to conserve it.
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