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Baltimore steps up to offer hurricane relief rescue and aid to battered Southwest Florida

Faygie Holt | Special to the JT Though separated by more than 1,000 miles, Baltimore’s Jewish community has embraced those in Southwest Florida who have...

A world in an etrog

Consider the etrog. A citrus fruit with a lemony floral scent, it is one of the “Four Species of Sukkot,” taken in hand and shaken...

Parents and grandparents pull up a chair next to the kids at Kol HaLev

Sunday school is no longer just for youngsters at Kol HaLev, a Baltimore-area Reconstructionist synagogue. Through its new “Making It Real” program, parents will be...

Working to address the mental-health crisis among children and teenagers

Though many consider the COVID-19 pandemic to be over, the effects it has had on young people’s mental health are not so easily dealt...

Why does breast cancer strike African-American women harder? Start with social inequality

Ellen Braunstein | Special to JT October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the United States, an African-American woman is about 40% more likely to...

Fish and fall fruits to break the Yom Kippur fast

It’s tradition! After Neilah services at my synagogue on Yom Kippur, there’s a surge to tables of light fare typically set out by the...

This High Holiday season, a Twitter ‘Repentance Bot’ wants to teach people how to...

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Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA Move over, Tashlich: Twitter is the new place to atone, thanks to a bot programmed by Jewish coders who want users...

For Jews with eating disorders, new traditions aim to make Yom Kippur a safer...

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Shonna Levin is an Orthodox Jew, but she didn’t spend last Yom Kippur in a synagogue. The activist in Brooklyn, N.Y., had planned to set...

On the record with Phil Jacobs

Forty years later, Phil Jacobs still remembers the rush he felt when he received the news that he was hired as assistant editor for...

Big shoes to fill: Marc Terrill to end tenure as Associated president

When Marc B. Terrill announced back in the late 1990s that he was leaving his fundraising management position at Combined Jewish Philanthropies after just...