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Capital Jewish Museum Hosts D.C. Block Party

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Northwest Washington D.C., the typically quiet F Street was filled with vendors and music as part of a...

Arts & Culture

Is D.C. Ready for Bagels from Queens?

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Hannah Docter-Loeb Do bagel lovers in the Washington area think what comes out of New York is so superior that they’ll flock to eateries where...

The new Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum believes the past needs input...

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  It’s home. It’s staying put. And the modest, 1876-era, red-brick building that began its existence as Adas Israel Congregation — which has been moved...

Swiss historical drama ‘Labyrinth of Peace’ shatters the myth of Switzerland’s neutrality in WWII

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Sponsored By Debra Nussbaum Cohen It’s Switzerland in 1945 and the war has just ended. A group of deeply traumatized, ragged-looking...

You Should Know

You Should Know… Ben Assaraf

Ben Assaraf, one of five children, grew up adjacent to a kibbutz. Not an Israeli kibbutz, but the Rollins Park Apartments in Rockville behind...

Nation and World

Israeli university promotes inclusion, diversity with unusual approach

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Sponsored By Elana Sztokman Tal Levine is the first person in her family to go to college. Her mother, a child...

Traumatized Israelis living near Gaza turn to unusual source for help

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Sponsored By Elana Sztokman SDEROT, Israel — Whenever Efraim Rozenfeld hears a plane flying overhead, his body tenses up. The 52-year-old father of seven and grandfather...

7 ways to offer support and Jewish strength to friends or loved ones facing...

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Sponsored By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan  When Shoshana Polakoff, 40, received an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis three years ago, the mother of three young children...

Last Word

Rabbi Marc Israel on Being Pro-Israel

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Rabbi Marc Israel got his first taste of AIPAC when he was 17. And for the next 35 years, Israel was an AIPAC man...

Rabbi David Wolkenfeld Brings Continuity and Change to Ohev Sholom

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Rabbi David Wolkenfeld and Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld are settling into their new home, as this summer he became Ohev Sholom Congregation’s rabbi and she...
Robin Hettleman Weinberg

Robin Hettleman Weinberg’s Path to the Presidency

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How does someone become a “community person” — one of those perpetually busy people who attends a lot of meetings and is deeply involved...