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Rabbi Arthur Waskow is shown here in 2010 speaking at a news conference to show support for a proposed mosque in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images, via JTA)
A household name in progressive Jewish circles, Rabbi Waskow was the author of more than two dozen books, several of which have become Jewish classics,
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Ian Yosef Hertzmark of Migrash Farm: “I am not an outright capitalist, but I do believe in market forces and I do believe that to a certain extent, we are in a watershed moment in terms of consumerism and consumption." (Mike Tintner via JTA)
Ian Yosef Hertzmark of Migrash Farm in Randallstown has seen his sales of flour more than double during the pandemic.
Read MoreThe Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown will reduce its staff by 75 percent.
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Geoffrey Sorenson was unable to comfort his late grandmother, Holocaust survivor Gerda Garbatzky of Long Island, N.Y., when she was dying from the coronavirus. (Photo Courtesy of Geoffrey Sorenson)
Grieving Jews are reckoning with changes that are unfolding with almost unbelievable speed, as coronavirus regulations impact the shiva process and the Kaddish prayer.
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President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017. (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Flickr)
This year, North American Jews grappled with the #MeToo movement, the Trump administration relocated the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and actress Natalie Portman made headlines for turning down a chance to collect a top prize in Israel.
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Leonard Cohen's grave, next to three generations of his family, in the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim cemetery in Montreal. (Ben Harris)
“He came into the world a Montreal Jew and he left the world a Montreal Jew,” said Gideon Zelermyer, the cantor at Shaar Hashomayim, who presided over the burial with the synagogue’s rabbi.
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