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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