Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Shimon Peres a “brave” partner for peace in a condolence letter sent to his family.
The High Holy Days are a time for prayer, relaxed introspection and focusing on peace and gratitude, but in a city known for its seemingly endless traffic, none of that comes easy.
When the organizers of the “Concert Across America to End Gun Violence” decided they needed to shout their message from the rooftops of Los Angeles on Sept. 25, they took things pretty literally.
It is hard to think of anything that has altered Jewish life more radically than the inclusion of women in the rabbinate.
On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, a date that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, 14-year-old Lore Rosen (nee Baron) left for school from the fifth-floor, walk-up apartment where she lived with her mother in Mannheim, Germany.
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