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The Bat Mitzvah Turns 100

A 12-year-old girl named Judith Kaplan Eisenstein became the first American girl to enjoy that rite of passage. Since then, nearly one million girls and women, including about 20,000 American girls annually, have marked their bat mitzvah. 

Celebrating Or Ami’s Cantor Doug Cotler

Cotler blends traditional Jewish melodies with modern popular music to teach, inspire, heal and entertain. He has recorded six albums of original Jewish music and published two songbooks containing the songs from four of his recordings. 

Attack on Ukraine Summons Haunting Echoes of the Past

These vignettes from testimonies in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive bring just a few stories from these places to light. The words of survivors, as they often do, reach forward through time.

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