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Sarah Ogince

It was used as a talisman in war, offered as food to the gods and purportedly seduced a Russian tsarina who was famously averse to its dominant ingredient.
“We’re the people of the book, but we don’t read our own book,” says Robert Weinger, a master shofar-blower who lives in Israel.
For nine days each summer before the holiday of Tisha B’Av, observant Jews embrace an alternative diet. Modern Jewish chefs say it’s a return to their roots.
Shavuot wasn’t always a dairy-heavy all-nighter.
The campaign aims to raise Holocaust awareness and to put a spotlight on rising anti-Semitism.
They are flocking to Israel through Masa Israel Journey; the organization has seen a 200 percent jump in applicants from the region since the war began.
A Jew-hating politician, a fortuitous intermarriage and an impending disaster for the Jewish people of Persia, which was averted by some last-minute lobbying …
The holiday’s message of religious freedom and spiritual light is an antidote to global intolerance, say rabbis.
Her path was not a smooth one. In fact, for more than a thousand years after it was written, her story was forgotten.
In time for the annual emissary conference in Brooklyn, N.Y., a new book explores keys to interpersonal resolution and the continued growth of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.