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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...
Opinion
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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Jeremy Schooler Aids Young Adults Creating Global Jewish Communities
Before last weekend, the last time Jeremy Schooler stood on the bimah at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville was for his bar mitzvah.
Schooler was...
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Last Word
Creating Pathways Into Jewish Life With Lauren Dworkin
Lauren Dworkin feels like she grew up with the Bender JCC of Greater Washington, between serving as a camp counselor there and, now, leading...
Food & Dining
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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Nation and World
Mamdani Lacerates Netanyahu While Admitting He Can’t Arrest Him
Kelly Hartog | JTA
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration has concluded the city does not have the legal authority to arrest...
Arts & Culture
Nathan Straus Made His Fortune at Macy’s — and Spent It...
Charles Munitz | JTA
What do the ultra-wealthy owe the rest of us? It may be the defining argument of our second Gilded Age.
While Elon...
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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...