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Holocaust survivor reunited with family’s heirloom Bible
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAOct 28, 2021
In June, a courier dispatched by a German museum arrived at Susi’s Upper West Side apartment with a package. Surrounded by their immediate family and rabbi, she and...
Doodles can help teach Hebrew
Shira Hanau, JTAOct 14, 2021
PITTSBURGH — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a...
Are Kahane’s ideas going mainstream?
JTAOct 14, 2021
By Emily Burack NEW YORK — Meir Kahane is the “Jew whom many Jews would like to forget.” Yet, as Shaul Magid writes in Meir Kahane: The Public Life and...
From Vietnamese refugee to Denverite
Chris LeppekOct 07, 2021
Aronheim’s life has been one of many journeys, and destinations, most of which — sometimes against staggering odds — she has reached. A Denverite for more than 20...
Remembering Denver’s rabbinic author
Special to the IJNSep 24, 2021
By Aaron Brooks Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ginsburg’s 75th yahrzeit is Tishrei 27. Denver’s most prolific rabbinic author, he is also rememembered as a gentle and welcoming...
Sukkot: Why it’s the favorite holiday at our house
Jill AltmanSep 17, 2021
Sukkot — which begins Monday evening, Sept. 20 — has long been a favorite holiday at the Altman house in Colorado Springs. For my husband and me, it is a […]
Muslims in the Gulf explore High Holiday traditions
JNSSep 10, 2021
By Josh Hasten, JNS With Jews around the world set to begin the High Holiday season, the small Jewish communities in six Gulf states, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,...
10 great reasons to love pomegranates
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21cSep 10, 2021
Coaxing the edible seeds out of a pomegranate is a popular how-to topic. Some swear by the whack-with-a-wooden-spoon method; others massage out those ruby-red arils in a...
Double your joy: Five fascinating facts about the Jewish leap year
Deborah Fineblum, JNSSep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION D PAGE 4 Buckle your seatbelts. With the arrival of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is being thrown headlong into the leap year of...
Taking the bark out of the prisoner
JTASep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION A PAGE 23 By Alix Wall VACAVILLE, Calif. — Soon after Jon Grobman was released from prison, where he had once thought he would die,...
