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For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the US’ greatest cantors
New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle2dOpinion
If we want Jewish life to survive, we must invest in the living
Jewish continuity has never come from educating others about our suffering. It always comes from educating our children about ...
The Times of Israel4d
Research center works to save myriad Hebrew dialects shaped by millennia of wandering
Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language ...
The Forward5d
Jews thought Trump wanted to fight antisemitism. Why did he cut all of their grants?
When DOGE routed the National Endowment for the Humanities, hundreds of grants for Jewish history and Yiddish culture were ...
Scholars have told important Jewish stories with the NEH’s support. What happens to them now? | Commentary
A historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades wonders what will happen to Jewish stories now that many of ...
Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in Los Angeles wildfires
The January fire destroyed the menorahs she lit for Hanukkah and the growing collection of dreidels Aty Rotter planned to ...
WGAL on MSN7d
Community center commemorates 80th anniversary of Holocaust liberation
In York, the York Jewish Community Center held an event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Holocaust liberation. The ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle8d
What did Americans know? Beaver Falls Holocaust exhibit challenges historical memory
“Americans and the Holocaust” examines the U.S. public’s limited response to the plight of Jews seeking to escape Nazi ...