By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Jewish Sound Columnist Dear Rivy, Two issues, both Hanukkah related. Every year we host our family’s Hanukkah party, wh
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Read MoreBy Suzanne Feinspan, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I sat down last week to write about what happened in Ferguson. As I began to write,
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews The only thing missing was the campfire on December 8 when 30 people gathered with the Jewish Genealo
Read MoreNina Badzin Kveller.com MINNEAPOLIS (Kveller.com) — We Jews have two choices in our approach to the Christmas season: Resent it or embrace it. I fo
Read MoreBy Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound On Nov. 28, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle announced that 14 organizations would receive near
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Roya Hakakian was 12 when her country erupted in revolution. The daughter of intellectual
Read MoreBy Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Sharing stories of its history, reuniting alumni, and looking to the future, Camp Solomon Schechter c
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Last week's departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic -- including Franklin Foe
Read MoreBy Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week NEW YORK (The Jewish Week via JTA) -- Just three weeks after terrorists killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem syn
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York underscores three things that Jewish securit
Read More(JTA) — An Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed while praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. Levi Ro
Read MoreBy Hillel Kuttler, JTA World News Service The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. BALTIMORE (JTA) — “Seek
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Fresh out of Israel and already scooping up a first place award at the Tribeca Film Festi
Read MoreBy Hillel Kuttler, JTA World News Service PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — In text accompanying a new exhibition at this city’s National Museum of American Jew
Read MoreBy Robert Gluck, JNS.org The miracle of Hanukkah is an epic story of conservation, as one day’s worth of oil lasted for eight days in the Jewish Te
Read MoreHere’s how David Krantz, president and chairperson of Aytzim: Ecological Judaism, suggests how you can take on a new environmental commitment for each
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