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By: Gabe Snyder <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view The dusty heat of the brown Auschwitz sun was pouring down on us — 45 teens about to engage with history on the Union for Reform...
By GABE SNYDER
By: Eileen Winter <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Last Spring, my husband Ken and I decided to tour Eastern Europe to experience the part of the world our ancestors had left...
By EILEEN WINTER
interview with Sergio Brukman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Sergio Brukman is chairman of the Judaica Foundation. What should travelers not miss in your city? Buenos Aires has...
interview with Alvin Kushner <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Interview with Alvin Kushner, regional chairman of the Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation, vice chairman of...
By: Aron and Judith Hirt-Manheimer <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view At Congregation Sha’are Shalom in Kingston, Jamaica, we experienced a Jewish community the likes of which are...
By ARON AND JUDITH HIRT-MANHEIMER
An interview with Stéphane Beder <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Interview with Stéphane Beder, president of the Federation of French-Speaking Liberal Jews (an organization...
interview with Philip Bliss <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Dr. Philip Bliss is secretary of the World Union for Progressive Judaism and former president both of the Union for...
By: Rabbi Ruth H. Sohn <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view I have begun a year-long sabbatical in Berlin, one of the places on Earth I never imagined I would live. I am the child...
By RABBI RUTH H. SOHN
By: Rabbi Anthony Fratello <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Luis de Carvajal, the younger, was not a typical Jewish hero. He did not establish a rabbinic dynasty; in fact, he...
By RABBI ANTHONY FRATELLO
By: Aron and Judy Hirt-Manheimer <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view The alluring beauty, pristine beaches, ideal climate, and music festivals make Barbados one of the world's...
By ARON AND JUDY HIRT-MANHEIMER
Interview with Canadian rabbis Michael Dolgin, Leigh Lerner, and Dow Marmur <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Does Canadian Jewry have a unique character as opposed to American...
By: Aron and Judy Hirt-Manheimer <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Last June, we returned to the enchanting city where, almost 30 years ago, we stood together under an outdoor...
By ARON AND JUDY HIRT-MANHEIMER
By: Marla Feldman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view This past summer I served as a chaperone for the North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY)'s Dor L'Dor (...
By MARLA FELDMAN
By: Mark Glickman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view In December 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter stepped into the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt-and found the...
By MARK GLICKMAN
By: Ruth Sohn <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view The following is adapted from the journal Rabbi Ruth Sohn kept during her family's stay in Cairo, Egypt from January to July...
By RUTH SOHN
By: Alan Bennett <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view This discussion and study guide to The Arabic Lesson contains an article summary, Big Ideas to consider, questions for...
By ALAN BENNETT
By: Bernard Edinger <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Liberal Judaism in France, which just marked its 100th anniversary, is more vibrant than ever before. France's 14...
By BERNARD EDINGER
By: Aron Hirt-Manheimer <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view The Holocaust horror stories my parents told me as a young child forced me to shoulder a heavy emotional load. First I...
By ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER
By: Dan Fleshler <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Thousands of Germans are documenting, restoring, and perpetuating the memory of Jewish life and culture before the Nazis took...
By DAN FLESHLER
interview with Dr. Houman Sarshar <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view The director of publications at the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, Dr. Houman Sarshar is the editor of...
Roya Hakakian's story of growing up Jewish during the Iranian Revolution. <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Revolution. Everything in Iran changed on February 1, 1979, the...
How Iraq's 2,600-year-old Jewish community was decimated in one decade. By: Edwin Black <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Baghdad, June 22, 2004. Just days before the...
By EDWIN BLACK
interview with Tamara Ruben <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Tamara Ruben, the education director of Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey, was born in Iraq in June 1950, only...
interview with Rabbi Burt Schuman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Did you ever imagine that you might one day serve as rabbi in Warsaw? Actually, for years I had entertained the...
In a land that was once home to a great Jewish civilization, some Jews and non-Jews construct memorials to "a vanished people" while others rebuild a living Judaism. By: Aron Hirt-...
By ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER
By: Morlan Ty Rogers <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Seventeen years ago, I discovered the horrible fate that had befallen twenty-six of my relatives. On July 10, 1941, just...
By MORLAN TY ROGERS
By: Mark S. Glickman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view One rainy Sunday afternoon last November, I was driving in Tacoma, Washington when my cell phone rang. "Rabbi,"...
By MARK S. GLICKMAN
By: Leonard Nimoy <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view I have avoided Germany for almost 15 years. My last visit was a business trip in 1985 when I was asked by my studio to help...
By LEONARD NIMOY
By: Paul Liptz <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Travel abroad and you’ll witness, as I have, the wonders of Jewish rebirth and resilience in places where Judaism was once on the...
By PAUL LIPTZ
By: Cindy R. Kandel <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view While I thought I had an awareness of my purpose, a new one was revealed to me this past summer when my two daughters,...
By CINDY R. KANDEL
An Interview with Rabbi Robert Jacobs <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Rabbi Robert Jacobs serves as rabbi of Bet David Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa. What do...
An interview with Rabbi Lennard Thal <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Rabbi Lennard Thal, senior vice president emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, has served as visiting...
Interview with Erika Siegfried-Tompson <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Erika Siegfried-Tompson is a member of Bet Orim in Budapest and an activist in the Hungarian Reform...
interview with Leonid Bimbat <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Rabbi Leonid Bimbat is rabbi of Congregation Le-Dor va-Dor in Moscow. What should travelers not miss in Moscow?...
An interview with Harry A. and Barbara Tasch Ezratty <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Harry A. and Barbara Tasch Ezratty are both past presidents of Temple Beth Shalom. Harry is...
An interview with Raul Cesar Gottlieb <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Raul Cesar Gottlieb is vice president of WUPJ Latinamerica, board member of Associação Religiosa Israelita...
By: Nancy Alpert <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Rosh HaShanah in Bali, and I was sitting in the rain watching the Ramayana, a traditional dance, after a dinner of lamb kabobs...
By NANCY ALPERT
By: Gary Bretton-Granatoor <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Just a few weeks ago, Reform and Progressive Jews from all over the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the...
By GARY BRETTON-GRANATOOR
By: Paul A. Shapiro <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view They told me that trying to open the largest archive of inaccessible Holocaust-related documents would be like tilting at...
By PAUL A. SHAPIRO
By: Rabbi Evon Yakar and Bob Langsfeld <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view There’s a lot that goes into planning a vacation. Where should you go? Should you hit the beach or the...
By RABBI EVON YAKAR AND BOB LANGSFELD
By: Gail Glezerman Sherman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view Travel is my passion. I find nothing more exhilarating than visiting new places…but not for the reasons you may...
By GAIL GLEZERMAN SHERMAN
By: Martin Sherman <? global $_domain;?> Print Edit view Edit view A curious Indian stops a passing Israeli backpacker on a New Delhi street. "Tell me," he asks, "how many...
By MARTIN SHERMAN
By: Aron and Judy Hirt-Manheimer Print Edit view Edit view Nova Scotia has much to offer the Jewish traveler. Though few Jews still live in the province, Jewish history and memory endure. Our visit...
By ARON AND JUDY HIRT-MANHEIMER
By: HEATHER MENDEL Print Edit view Edit view Temple Beth El in Glens Falls, N.Y., is privileged to have actor Josh Gray and his family as part of its congregational family. We recently caught up...
By HEATHER MENDEL
By: CHRIS HARRISON AND MO SELKIRK Print Edit view Edit view Tu B’Av, while a minor Jewish holiday, has gained a surge in popularity in the last century, especially in the State of Israel. A Chag...
By CHRIS HARRISON AND MO SELKIRK
By: Chris Harrison Print Edit view Edit view The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted how Jewish communities across North America engage with one another, and so many folks have taken on...
By CHRIS HARRISON
