2+ hour ago  (777+ words) Esther wasn't certain she was taking the right action, so why are so many of us? -- The post Projecting the Purim story onto this war is appealing. It's also a dangerous mistake. appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Around me,…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1768+ words) The Purim spiel is a love letter to the community," said Rabbi Adam Roffman of Congregation Shearith Israel. Excited chatter and the rattling of noisemakers echoed throughout the halls of Congregation Shearith Israel as 900 people streamed into its Purim spiel…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (284+ words) Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, is also set to release a book in April. A book featuring testimony from Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the Chabad emissary who was killed in December in an antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, will…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (693+ words) Plus, tensions rise over whether Mamdani should be invited to the Israel Day Parade he won't attend. 1,500 Jewish teens are stranded in New York after the winter storm punctuated an international teen summit sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Before the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (521+ words) The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging," Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck. Israel's highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1691+ words) From a global youth resolution to calls for boardroom inclusion, thousands of teens in Philadelphia pushed to shape the future of Jewish life. Standing before thousands of teens packed into the BBYO International Convention Saturday night in Philadelphia, Leo Coen…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (684+ words) The Moshe Chaim Luzzatto letter was sold by the Jewish Theological Seminary during a financial crisis, a move that drew criticism from scholars and rare-book experts. Now, a lost treasure from the library has once again emerged at auction: this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (606+ words) At its height, Beth Israel of Mahanoy City served 50 families. An abandoned synagogue in Pennsylvania's coal region, which until the early 2000s had served Jewish residents of Mahanoy City for more than 80 years, collapsed late Thursday night, officials and neighbors told…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (471+ words) A new Center for Jewish History exhibit spans five decades of images " from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading glory of the Jewish Lower East Side. Bill Aron, whose early projects included a series on Jews living…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago  (640+ words) The online conference, hosted by 70 Faces Media, is designed to help Jewish professionals increase their impact in the digital world. Three action-packed days. Fifty expert speakers. Thirty-three compelling online sessions that will inform and educate more than 750 participants representing at…...