In Vermont, the pace and attitudes are relaxed. One congregation uses Lake Champlain as a mikvah; another celebrates Rosh Hashanah with a tashlich ceremony in kayaks.
Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem periodically alter our view of the past, while new sights add experiences to the city’s already crowded palette.
Visitors will be amazed by the hundreds of new residents who arrive each month and the institutions that hum with Jewish cultural life in our capital city.
There were many extraordinary sights on our trip through Southeast Asia, but what moved us the most were the personal connections, especially the unexpected Jewish ones.
With its emergence in the mid-19th century, Argentina’s Jewish community was the first reincarnation of Castillian-speaking Jewry since the Spanish expulsion in 1492.
The prosperity of the Jewish community today belies the struggle of earlier generations who fought against anti-Semitism and openly supported civil rights