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Being Jewish
Fiction: A Few Small Stones
Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.

Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.
Space, Time, Gravity and Zionism
Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Feature: Message from the Sources: A Time to Save the Planet

Jews have a decades-long record of protecting the earth, finding Jewish inspiration in rewriting their dominion over the land into tending God’s domain.. The early

Being Jewish

Letter from Brooklyn : Do the Right Thing

Can a person do for others at the same time that he does for himself? Here is one entrepreneurial davener’s story. The Sunday morning service was

Being Jewish

Commentary: Riches by the Pocketful

The Talmud (Eruvin 65) suggests that a person is defined by what he carries in his pockets. Every Thanksgiving, I look into my pockets and

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Commentary: Questions of Faith

by David Wolpe

I was 12 when I stopped believing in God. I lost my faith when I first encountered the horrific images of the Holocaust in the

Being Jewish

Commentary: Talmudic Fish Tale

by llana Kurshan

It is Friday afternoon, two hours before Shabbat. I am preparing salmon in my Jerusalem studio apartment, listening to a recorded lecture on my computer

Being Jewish

Last Look: A Star Is Reborn – Reclaiming and reinventing a Jewish legacy.

In its heyday, the eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side echoed with the footsteps of thousands of worshipers, from the famous—scientist Jonas

Being Jewish

Commentary: Sunrise, Sunset

by Lisa Kingstone

When my son was a newborn, I had imagined myself his custodian in the years ahead, picking up after him, feeding him, buying larger pants

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Editor’s Wrapup: In So Many Words

by Alan M. Tigay

Just as language is what distinguishes humankind from the other species, so does the way we use language distinguish one person from another. There are

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