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Passover haggadahs have long included pictures of rabbit hunts. This year shows us why.

Passover haggadahs have long included pictures of rabbit hunts. This year shows us why.

The Passover Haggadah is one of the few sacred Jewish texts that has a long history of including illustrations, and among the most remarkable are...

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Benjamin Resnick

Why I turned down an invitation to speak at Temple Emanu-El’s 180th anniversary Shabbat service

I was thrilled and deeply honored when I got an invitation to participate in Congregation Emanu-El’s 180th anniversary Shabbat service. This...

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Rabbi Andrue Kahn

Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

“All of my books are the same book,” said Dara Horn, the author of seven novels and the 2021 essay collection, “People Love Dead Jews,” which...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Cory Booker spoke at a synagogue on Yom Kippur. Its rabbi says Jews should learn from his 25-hour Senate speech.

As Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest Senate speech and made clear he was going for 25 hours, Jewish social media lit up with jokes....

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Philissa Cramer

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

These Modern Orthodox and observant Jews want to change their community’s conversation around the Gaza war

These Modern Orthodox and observant Jews want to change their community’s conversation around the Gaza war

Close to 30 Jews met recently at a private home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, sitting on borrowed folding chairs to hear Karin Loevy, an Israeli...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll