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Sunflower Bakery Receives $300K in State Support

The bakery was also named nonprofit of the year by Greater Rockville Chamber of Commerce Gov. Wes Moore and Maryland Secretary of Labor Portia Wu...

Bender JCC Honors 6 Youth Athletes

Bernard Lubran, Who Preserved Ritchie Boys’ History, Dies at 79

Allen Mushinsky, Architect Behind Tivoli Theatre Restoration, Dies at 82

Winchester Man Saves 26 Chickens En Route to Kapparot in NYC

Opinion

D’var Torah: Bereshit: Beginning Again

Rabbah Arlene Berger This week’s Torah portion is Bereshit: Genesis 1:1 — 6:8 This Shabbat feels different. There is something in the air when we read...

Editorial: The Things We Were Supposed to Keep

Editorial: Bipartisan Guideposts for AI

Editorial: When the Unthinkable Becomes Respectable

Editorial: He Could Have Said Nothing

You Should Know

DC’s Matthew Koppel Forges Community Around Shabbat Dinner Table

At Camp Moshava, where most daily decisions are made by someone aged 22 or younger, Matthew Koppel learned self-actualization. That youth-led approach taught Koppel: “If...

Rockville’s Jacob Schwartz Turns Jewish Values Into Disability Inclusion

Van Ness’ Annalee Thompson Brings Creative Touch to Judaism at Adas...

Ava Susser-Stein Helps Students Find Their Jewish Home at GW Hillel

Cantor Sydney Michaeli Brings Musical Joy to Virginia’s Largest Synagogue

Around Town

Last Word

Shelley Severe Finds Community, Purpose Through Hadassah Greater DC

Faygie Holt Over the years, Shelley Severe heard about Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America from her friends and colleagues whose grandparents had bought...

Rockville’s Rachel B. Handloff Oversees Specialty Jewish Camps

McLean’s Sara Brenner Applies Jewish Values to Philanthropy

Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block Helps People Unplug to Truly Connect During Shabbat

Ohev Sholom’s Rachel Weiss-Berger Sustains Jewish Community

Food & Dining

Sunkist fruit gems

‘We Hear You,’ Says Sunkist, Won’t Cancel Fruit Gems

After the news that Sunkist was discontinuing its Fruit Gems, and Jews nationwide wondered what soft but light kosher candy they could throw at...
Sunkist fruit gems

Sunkist Fruit Gems Discontinued, Bar and Bat Mitzvah Boys, Girls Will...

Wine map of Israel

Israel Finally Has a Wine Map. Now Comes the Hard Part.

A Confluence of Observances: 9/11, Shabbat and Rosh Hashanah

Where to Order Food for the High Holidays

Nation and World

‘Dangerous Territory’: Herzog Slams Europe, Where Jewish Life is Contracting in...

JNS Staff Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday criticized Europe for once again fostering an inhospitable environment for Jews, with communities shrinking amid fear and...

‘I Never Knew America Would Turn on Jews This Way,’ Says...

Three Years After Oct. 7, JFNA Says Jewish Engagement Has Reached...

Next UN Leader Must Clean up Antisemitism, World Jewish Communities Tell...

Mamdani’s Office Unveils Plan to Combat Antisemitism Without Defining the Term

Arts & Culture

He Went to a Different Manhattan Synagogue Every Week. Here’s What...

Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA Reporting on the Jewish community is a lot like ornithology, except instead of birds the goal is to describe the dress,...

‘Checkout’ and ‘Fauda’ Test the Appetite for Israeli Spy Stories After...

Sunkist fruit gems

‘We Hear You,’ Says Sunkist, Won’t Cancel Fruit Gems

Display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit “Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto” in New York City Sept. 17.

Exhibit at NY Holocaust Museum Shows How Jews Tried to ‘Speak...

Sunkist fruit gems

Sunkist Fruit Gems Discontinued, Bar and Bat Mitzvah Boys, Girls Will...

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Thousands of Teens Gather in Israel to Celebrate Their Connection to Jewish Life —...

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