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Looming Jewish teacher shortage prompts new accelerated training in well-known Jerusalem program

Sponsored content By Elana Sztokman When Rabbi David Wallach was looking for an institution to help him become a better Jewish day school...

At this unique yearlong Torah study program in Jerusalem, students are encouraged to ask...

Sponsored By Judith Sudilovsky Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive...

Event in Berlin marks one of Germany’s largest-ever gatherings for its ex-Soviet Jewish community

Sponsored By Larry Luxner BERLIN — It was hard to overlook the symbolism: the city that once was the epicenter of Nazi Germany hosting a massive...

How one special Pink Day helps save and support cancer patients

Sponsored By Eric Berger  When Rachel Wojnilower was an undergraduate at American University in Washington, D.C., she did all kinds of activities with her...

For one group of friends separated by geography, a single Israel experience builds lifelong...

Sponsored By Larry Luxner When Ashley Inbar of Portland, Maine, got married in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the Jamaican beach resort of Ocho Rios in...

This unusual Israeli podcast covers everything from sentient AI to extending the human lifespan

Sponsored By Renee Ghert-Zand If an alien spacecraft landed in Prof. Avi Loeb’s backyard tomorrow, he would readily step on, leave his family...

Local pulpit rabbis on Israel: ‘We don’t give up on family’

A New York City rabbi recently made national headlines when he announced that, as an act of protest against extremists in the government of...

Why does Israel demolish houses after terrorist attacks?

Less than a hour after a terror attack in eastern Jerusalem on Feb. 10 killed three people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a...

In Haifa, a university serves as a base for Arab-Jewish coexistence — and a...

Sponsored Larry Luxner | JTA HAIFA — On a recent chilly morning, six Israeli Druze women gathered in a room at the University of Haifa library...

Growing number of young Jews turning to service to express their Jewish values

  Janu Mendel, the Southeast regional director of Repair the World, tends to vegetation at a local community farm in Miami. (Courtesy of Repair the...