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Menorah (Gil Dekel/Wikimedia Commons)

Chanukah Fire Safety Tips

November 24, 2018 Lior Zaltzman, JTA

Here are some helpful tips to help you minimize the risks and have a safe and bright Festival of Lights.

Rabbi Steve Schwartz (Provided photo)

The Power of Sacred Words

November 23, 2018 Rabbi Steven Schwartz

Judaism has long believed that what you say can make an impact on what you think and feel.

Lior Gross, a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, created a Hebrew grammar that lets speakers avoid identifying as male or female. (Patrick Campbell)

This College Student Created a Way for Nonbinary People to Speak Hebrew

November 19, 2018 Ben Sales, JTA

For nonbinary Jews, including some transgender people, speaking Hebrew — or praying or participating in services — can be fraught.

Beth Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg (left) and Dr. Terris A. King of Liberty Graces Church of God in Ashburton. (Photo provided)

Beth Tfiloh and Ashburton Church Celebrate their Common Bond at Day of Unity

November 15, 2018 Carol Sorgen

“I’ve never been involved in anything like this before. It took the right person at the right time to make me do the right thing,” says Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg.

Firefighters battle a blaze at the Salvation Army Camp in Malibu, Calif., Nov. 10, 2018. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

How a Rabbi Saved 4 Torah Scrolls from Being Destroyed in the California Wildfires

November 13, 2018 Josefin Dolsten, JTA

Here are two remarkable stories of people coming together as a result of the fires.

This doll is Lore Mayerfeld's direct link to the events of Kristallnacht. (Yad Vashem/Getty Images)

A Girl’s Doll is a Poignant Reminder of the Horrors of Kristallnacht

November 9, 2018 Hillel Kuttler, JTA

Dressed in off-white pajamas adorned with colorful bunnies and chicks, the doll named Inge represents more than a sentimental item from a childhood in Kassel, Germany.

Rabbi Berel Lazar affixes a mezuzah to the front door of the New Synagogue in Kaliningrad, Nov. 8, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Russia’s Westernmost Synagogue Rebuilt 80 years After Kristallnacht Destruction

November 9, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

The synagogue’s destruction and torching by the Nazis in the Kristallnacht pogroms that began on Nov. 9, 1938 was particularly shocking to the thousands of Jews who lived in Koenigsberg.

Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg: “Today, I believe people want a rabbi who can give a great sermon on the High Holidays but can also spend an afternoon playing golf or going to a football game.” (Photo provided)

‘Where I’m Supposed to Be’

October 31, 2018 Aliza Friedlander

“It’s not lost on me that there have only been eight senior rabbis in the congregation’s nearly 150 years, and how awesome of a responsibility this is. … We have been so welcomed by everyone,” says Rabbi Gruenberg.

French soldiers patrol in front of a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, as part of France’s national security alert system Vigipirate, Jan. 21, 2015. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

In Europe, Synagogues are Protected Like Fortresses. It Took Decades to Get There.

October 29, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

According to European security professionals, it will take at least a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars before U.S. Jewry’s security infrastructure matches the European counterpart.

Kylie Stuart works on kneading her dough at The Great Challah Bake. (Photo by Ed Bunyan)

Hundreds Participate in the Great Challah Bake in Howard Co.

October 29, 2018 JMORE Staff

The Great Challah Bake took place Oct. 25 at Laurel Park.

People enter the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, Oct. 28 2018, to attend a memorial service for the mass shooting a day earlier. (Ron Kampeas)

Pittsburgh Tries to See the Future Through the Darkness

October 29, 2018 Ron Kampeas, JTA

“So God, why us?” said Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, rabbi of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation, who was the last to speak at the memorial hall. “Why couldn’t he turn his car in a different direction?”