The Tenth of Tevet is not just a fast day mourning the destruction of the temple but a day to mourn those for whom the date of death is unknown. (JTA) — Today is an unusual day on the Jewish calendar, ...

Some 1,200 families will soon finish saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved ones who were murdered on Simchat Torah, October 7. The custom is to recite the Kaddish prayer three times daily for ...

“It is an expression of community as we tell this hard story,” writes the actress who plays Lucille Frank in a show about the antisemitic lynching of Frank’s husband Leo. (JTA) — Eight times a week, ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

The slashing of the portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge, is a shocking development. Not since the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 have we seen such an act. The ...

Mad magazine was the haggadah of my childhood. It was my sacred text, my script and my constant companion — so much so that I cannot imagine my childhood and early adolescence without it. That is why ...

We hope you’ll join us for our November events! This month, our whole community is invited to celebrate Shabbat for Good—a ...

I only met Samantha Woll once, but it stuck with me. We discovered we’d grown up blocks apart in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and attended the same Jewish day school, a decade ...

Janai Brugger Performs Leonard Bernstein's "Kaddish" Soprano Janai Brugger performs a section of Leonard Bernstein's "Kaddish." CLIP: 2:01 Jaye Ladymore Performs Bernstein's "Kaddish" Actor Jaye ...

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