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Helene Berman Karpa, Who Helped Shape Hadassah’s National Presence, Dies at...
Helene Berman Karpa, a third-generation Washingtonian whose decades of leadership in Hadassah and other Jewish organizations made her a prominent figure in the capital...
Opinion
Opinion: 2 Memorial Days, 2 Nations: 1 Shared Responsibility
By Hadara Ishak
The siren sounds, and an entire country stops.
Cars freeze in the middle of the highway. Drivers step out. Conversations end mid-sentence. For...
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DC Resident Noah Scholl Serves As a Face of GW Hillel
Like many political science students, Noah Scholl went to college in the nation’s capital, hoping to become the next president of the United States.
He...
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Adas Israel’s Jeanie Milbauer Provides Tools for a Meaningful Shabbat
Everything that entrepreneur and lawyer by training Jeanie Milbauer has done is connected to service and mission, she said.
The Washington, D.C., resident co-founded a...
Food & Dining
Don Ernesto of Hagafen Cellars: More Than 50 Years of Winemaking
Jules Polonetsky
There are winemakers, and then there are wine growers. Ernie Weir insists he is the latter — and after more than five decades...
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Nation and World
Assault Outside Synagogue and Rock Thrown Through Judaica Shop Window Ratchet...
A pair of incidents took place outside of Jewish sites in the Toronto area over the weekend, adding to a series of attacks that...
Arts & Culture
Apple TV’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Just Gave Us a Stunningly...
Yael Buechler | JTA
Matzah is not something I typically give much thought to in the days following Passover. Yet I cannot stop thinking about...
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Undeterred by War, North American Jews Continue to Immigrate to Israel
By Peter Ephross
Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite...
Meet the Israeli Scientists Leading the Fight Against Colorectal Cancer
By Larry Luxner
First, the good news. Among Americans under 50, the overall cancer mortality has plummeted by 44% over the last quarter-century. Better diagnostic tools,...
At This Jerusalem Museum, Everyday Objects Tell the Story of the Holocaust in a...
By Larry Luxner
JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of...
A New Chapter of Service: Lee H. Cohen Joins Northern Virginia Jewish Funerals
Northern Virginia Jewish Funerals continues to expand its presence in the community with the addition of Lee Cohen as Community Liaison, bringing with him...