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(Illustration/JTA-Leila Devine-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice

Rabbi Minna Bromberg by Rabbi Minna Bromberg and JTA May 10, 2021
Joey Soloway and Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie during last year’s Dawn. (Screenshot)
Posted inReligion

All-night Shavuot arts festival features local and national talent

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 10, 2021July 21, 2021
oil painting of girl in blue dress asleep on the ground
Posted inTorah

This week’s Torah takeaway: Give yourself a needed rest

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf May 7, 2021May 10, 2021
old books on a shelf
Posted inReligion

Inside each buried Jewish book, a Jewish heart

by Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky and JTA May 6, 2021May 6, 2021
man in yamulke inside synagogue
Posted inFilm

Basketball, refuseniks, Shira Haas: Silicon Valley Jewish film fest turns 30

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 6, 2021May 12, 2021
Synagogue in Mád, Hungary (Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inUncategorized

Issue of patrilineal descent raises some more questions

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler May 4, 2021May 12, 2021
man walking up stairs covered in debris, trash and garments
Posted inLag Ba'Omer

Three teenagers among 6 Americans killed in Israeli stampede

by Stewart Ain and JTA May 3, 2021May 12, 2021
Smoke from the sacrificial altar rises up from Jerusalem in this 1890 painting by James Tissot.
Posted inTorah

Flamin’ hot take: The Torah’s notion of sacrifice isn’t outdated

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 30, 2021April 29, 2021
Sculptor Chas Fagan, (left) holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan (right) uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-National Cathedral)
Posted inNews

Elie Wiesel will be the first Jew honored with a bust at the National Cathedral in Washington

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
This week's Torah portion lists 74 laws, including the law of gleaning, which says that fallen crops must be left for widows and orphans, as seen in "Gleaners" by James Tissot.
Posted inColumns

In the Torah’s ‘Holiness Code,’ justice must be served

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen April 23, 2021April 22, 2021

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