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Leah Forster says she never mentions her sexual orientation when performing for an Orthodox audience. (Courtesy of Forster)
“In life, I don’t want to be remembered as somebody who brings down other people and exposes faults in the community,” said Leah Forster.
Read MoreThe rules of bobsled, which has two- and four-person teams, actually make competing in a wheelchair less of a challenge than in most other sports.
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Alan Arkin, left, and Michael Douglas star in "The Kominsky Method," the latest from "Big Bang Theory" creator Chuck Lorre. (Mike Yarish/Netflix)
Plenty of Jewish actors as well as films and shows with Jewish content made this year’s Golden Globes shortlist.
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The Chabad of Towson center is set to be demolished, but its leadership and supporters are fighting back. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Supporters of outreach center compare the demolition of their house to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of 1938 viewed as the precursor to the Holocaust.
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Liana Finck attends an event at the Milk Gallery, New York City, Feb. 22, 2018. (Sean Zanni/Getty Images for Moleskine)
Finck is the author of “A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York,” an adaptation of the famed Yiddish advice column that appeared in the Forward.
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These sambusaks taste just like the traditional Syrian savory meat- or cheese-stuffed dumpling — except they are gluten free.
These gluten-free sambusaks, which are sold under the brand GlutenFree.sy, beat out regular pastries to snag Kosherfest’s new product award in the breads and baked goods category. They retail for $13.50 per dozen at kosher markets in the New York-area and are available with a cheese or meat filling. (Josefin Dolsten)
Once a year, this swampy neighbor of New York City turns into kosher food heaven.
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Firefighters battle a blaze at the Salvation Army Camp in Malibu, Calif., Nov. 10, 2018. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
Here are two remarkable stories of people coming together as a result of the fires.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Dianne Feinstein, Elissa Slotkin, Elaine Luria and Jacky Rosen (left to right). (JTA Collage; Wasserman Schultz photo: DNC via Flickr; Feinstein photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images; Slotkin photo: Elissa Slotkin for Congress; Luria photo: Elaine Luria Campaign; Rosen photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The winners are all Democrats — several female Jewish Republicans were unsuccessful in their bids for office.
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Fred Guttenberg, left, and Andrew Pollack lost their daughters in the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Guttenberg photo: Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images; Pollack photo: Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images; background photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Looking at the two fathers, one can’t help but wonder if they symbolize something larger. National tragedies tend to be moments of unity, pushing people to overlook their differences in common mourning, at least for the moment.
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Kristin Eriko Posner creates recipes that combine Jewish and Japanese culinary influences. (Courtesy of Posner)
“I feel like becoming Jewish has enriched my Japanese life,” Kristin Posner.
Read MoreThe Union for Reform Judaism — the congregational arm of the largest Jewish movement in the United States — offers guidance to synagogues on how to tailor b’nei mitzvah ceremonies for transgender or nonbinary children.
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