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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...

After long search for new location, Bet Chaverim is finally home

Bet Chaverim Congregation has moved into a new building, an event they commemorated with a dedication and mezuzah ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 18. Founded in...

7 Sweet Facts About Rosh Hashanah You May Not Know

Leah Kadosh | Kveller Shanah Tovah, Happy, Healthy New Year! The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is nearly here. I can tell this coming year...

Hazon and 20 Jewish organizations launch environmental coalition to fight climate change

Jewish groups are coming together, united by their hope for a better, cleaner future. Twenty Jewish organizations have signed onto the Coalition Founding Statement, establishing...

Efforts to help Ukrainian refugees: Some families reunited, others still in flux

Ukrainian American Vladimir Besser, 41, traveled across a war zone to get his wife and son to safety during the early days of the...

Amid higher threat levels, Jewish communities lean on $130 million initiative to bolster security

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Eric Berger | JTA When Haya Varon relocated to Houston from Mexico City more than four decades ago, she felt like she was moving to...