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A Ukrainian student at Brooklyn’s Hebrew Language Academy said Hibuki’s sad face is “because there is a war in Ukraine, and people are getting hurt.”The post Israeli-invented Hibuki therapy doll

The primary economic engine of Coastal Maine, also known as Vacationland, is the summer tourist season, which experienced tremendous growth in 2021 and continued strengthening in 2022. Attractions such as Acadia National Park, local beaches, lighthouses, and a host of restaurants, bars, breweries have remained the drivers of leisure travel.

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After over two and a half years, COVID-19 enters a new phase. how does that affect synagogues around the US?

With virus deaths falling globally, community-wide guidelines make way for a patchwork approach as the Jewish world prepares for 3rd High Holidays under pandemic concerns

Michael Farbman let rip from a goat’s horn to awaken us to the brokenness of our world and inspire us to work toward healing it. …

In a variety of programs throughout the United States, Jewish women are stepping up to the dais to honor Judith Kaplan, the girl who set a sweeping change in motion in 1922

The first bat mitzvah in the US was that of Judith Kaplan in 1922.

Congregations celebrate a milestone in expanding womens roles in Jewish life.

In the 1920s, the atmosphere around the inclusion of women in all forms of American life was changing. Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah took place just two years after the certification of the 19th amendment finally granted women the right to vote. And as the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism and SAJ, she was also in the right place at the right time.