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Purim and Persia
From Children’s Costumes to an Ancient Warning That Echoes Today Today, Purim is most visible as a joyful, almost carnival-like holiday, especially for ...
Game Day or Any Day: Chili That Warms You Up
By Tamar Rothenberg, MS, RDN; Author, Cancer Diet for the Newly Diagnosed Winter meal prep just got ...
Sarah Sassoon Reclaims the Lost Voices of Iraqi Jewry
The Jerusalem-based, Australian-born writer on reclaiming Mizrahi memory, resilience and hope By Steve Linde, JNS.org Sarah Sassoon ...
The Quiet Power of Joy
Nathaniel Allenby, Legacy, and the Cycle That Connects Us All When General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem in ...
San Diegans Bear Witness to October 7 Survivors
By Donna Pinto & Tamar Siegel At a time when historical truth is too often challenged or ...
Looking for Great Music by a Jewish Composer for a Purim Spiel? Maybe Try Kurt Weill
By Judy Buchman-Ziv For some 10 years, I wrote, directed and produced (such is synagogue life) with some help from my fellow-congregants and ...
A Love Story in Full Voice
By Franklin Felber and Diana Lerner For 40 years, Albert Kadosch and his wife, Patricia, were a ...
Mazel and Mishagoss: Everything is a Simcha if You Squint Hard Enough!
By Stephanie Gittleman My non-Jewish neighbor recently remarked that Jews turn any little thing into a cause ...
Prayers and Passages: The Gift of Shabbat
By Rabbi-Cantor Cheri Weiss And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy—having ceased on it ...
Humble Design: An Unexpected Journey of Empathy and Impact
Treger Strasberg embodies Tikun Olam. Her mission: helping individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness by fully ...
