Knesset in Auschwitz, Farewell Pete Seeger, Foxman on Pollard

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joined 58 Israeli parliamentarians in marking the 69th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation.

Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades.

As Latin American immigrants flock to Miami, one institution has reinvented itself to offer Latin-flavored Judaism.

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The annual conference of Chabad women emissaries is about half the size of the men’s version, but that’s hardly the only difference.

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Two Tulane University students — one Jewish — discover they are half-sisters, because their moms used the same Colombian sperm donor.

Two brothers bring the Brazilian martial art, which combines dance, acrobatics and music, to haredi Orthodox Jews in Bnei Brak.

In a Shabbat sermon, Ramaz principal and Kehilath Jeshurun Rabbi Haskel Lookstein explains the halachic basis for formalizing a policy at the Orthodox high school.

A radio segment explores the difficulties faced by Orthodox women unable to obtain a religious divorce.

The plight of millions of Jews shot to death in the fields of Eastern Europe has been getting greater attention in recent years as historians sift through records available only since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

David Furman explains what inspired him as a Jewish sleepaway camp director to come out of the closet on Facebook.

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