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It’s been an unprecedented and difficult year for the Jewish community and, in times like this, tradition can be a comfort. That’s why we’re especially honored to present this year’s

Finkelstein was an acclaimed author of nonfiction books and biographies for older children, including many on Jewish subjects.

BOSTON (JTA) — In the early 1980s, when Norman H. Finkelstein was the director of education at Camp Yavne in Northwood, New Hampshire, campers would greet his daily announcements by

How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?

A 19th century Hasid created a Christian-Jewish sect with sermons in Yiddish, hoping this would improve the fate of the Jews

Join us Sunday, May 21, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan for an event about the Forward's legendary Bintel Brief advice column.

On teen tours, adult pilgrimages and trips that led them to make aliyah, American Jews' first encounters with Israel changed their lives.

"The Song Of Bread" praises a way of life in which people can eat foods that were produced in their own fields, and was sung on Thanksgiving.

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Secular Jews won't understand Jewish and Yiddish culture unless they're immersed in old customs — even religious ones.