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Hebrew School Enrollment Across US Down by Nearly Half Since 2006

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Living in Brooklyn, surrounded by synagogues and Jewish schools, Rachel Weinstein White and her husband hoped to find a place where their children could...

New all-digital Hunger Museum charts US response to food insecurity through a Jewish lens

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An 1888 portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards and her all-female home economics class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 1915 campaign poster that maps out the 20...

Jewish Shoppers Struggle With Highest Prices in Recent Memory for Passover Food

A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box...

How one special Pink Day helps save and support cancer patients

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Eric Berger | JTA When Rachel Wojnilower was an undergraduate at American University in Washington, D.C., she did all kinds of activities with her Jewish...

Why a County in Utah Could Play a Role in Israel’s Judicial Crisis

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Aron Davidson has never been to Israel. He isn’t Jewish. He began serving in his position, Utah County clerk, just two months ago. But the...

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Embraces Access to Eastern European Jewish History Over Gatekeeping

Dovid Zaklikowski The bright hallways, expansive staircases and sleek sofas don’t reveal what is beyond the glass doors at the Center for Jewish History in...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein will not run again following more than 30 years in office

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Jewish Democrat from California who has been in office for more than three decades, will not run in 2024. “I am...

World Briefs: Ohio Investigating Nazi Home-Schooling Network and more

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Ohio Investigating Nazi Home-Schooling Network Ohio’s Department of Education is investigating a home-schooling network that claims public schools are run by “Zionist scum,” teaches kids...

Law Enforcement Thwarts Potential Neo-Nazi Terror Attack on Area Power Grids

Jewish groups in Baltimore are praising law enforcement after the U.S. Justice Department announced the Feb. 3 arrest of two individuals who they allege...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Uses Book to Build Bridges

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“The Book of Jewish Knowledge” is given out to educate and inspire 125 ambassadors at the world body. To begin the new year of 2023,...