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First Cohort of Guardians to Graduate, Protect Area Synagogues

Amid recent headlines detailing attacks on synagogues, a group of Jewish men in greater Washington is taking matters into its own hands. The Collective Threat...

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Letters to the Editor: July 23

‘The Plastic Bag Ban Is a Mistake’ (Editorial, July 9) Your editorial about plastic bags misses the point. I hope we can all agree that...

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Lifting Spirits at a Montgomery County Kosher Distillery

The sprawling 29-acre property that makes up Song Dog Farm Distillery in Boyds was nearly a decade in the making for a Jewish couple...

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Meet the North American Families Who Are Moving to Israel Right Now

By Peter Ephross At first glance, the recent celebration outside a northern New Jersey synagogue looked a lot like a bar or bat mitzvah party. Dance...

More Than a GPA: Inside the Movement to End Letter Grades in Jewish Education

By Debra Rubin At least three times each school year, middle school pupils at the Oakland Hebrew Day School write divrei Torah, or essays on a...

How Teachers Are Harnessing AI to Democratize Israeli Education

By Elana Sztokman When veteran Israeli educator Meirav Seror asked her high school literature class in Beersheba how they might use artificial intelligence to study for...

These Schools Build Druze Israeli Identity, One Student at a Time

By Elana Sztokman The front courtyard of the Amal high school in the western Galilee village of Yanuh Jat, with its stone terraces, flower-lined walkways...