Back in 1981, when I was attending rabbinical college in Boston, there was a young rabbi — fresh out of seminary — who founded a small congregation in the Boston suburb South Brookline.
For the past decade, members of Shaare Shalom, a Persian synagogue in Great Neck, N.Y., have traveled en masse to Miami each Passover.
Online searchers punching the word "Jew" into the Google search engine may be surprised at the results they get.
Merhav Mohar never lost a match until a Latvian at the Sheraton Plaza in Israel took away his winning streak.
Yes, El Salvador. Not exactly (or even approximately) a tourist mecca, but a mecca of sorts to delegations organized by American Jewish World Service (AJWS), a rapidly growing and growingly effective organization devoted to connecting Jews and Judaism to the developing world.
Judith Aaronson is one of the many people who obtain federally approved drugs from online business brokers, but instead of cost as the motivating factor, it\’s idealism that moves her and other Jews around the country to turn to Israel for their drugs.
It was an act of kindness reciprocated with murder.
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