As High Holidays approach, here's what they mean to the Jewish community
Jonah Kaplan spent the day at Heilicher Jewish Day School to ask kids what Rosh Hashanah means to them, and what we all could learn from the holiday.
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Jonah Kaplan spent the day at Heilicher Jewish Day School to ask kids what Rosh Hashanah means to them, and what we all could learn from the holiday.
Ahead of the High Holidays that begin this week, a network of Jewish security experts and religious leaders in the U.S. hosted several webinars to help prepare for the season.
Weininger was the first openly gay man to be admitted to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a major rabbinical school for what's known as the conservative movement, a middle ground between Reform and Orthodox. Now he's making history again.
Over the years, Helen Seigel has shared what she's learned from her parents with classrooms across Minnesota and beyond -- even joining her now 98-year-old mother on a trip back to Auschwitz.
Israeli authorities said an Italian tourist was killed and five other Italian and British citizens were wounded when a car rammed into a group of tourists in Tel Aviv.
Jonah Kaplan extended a special invitation to Erin Hassanzadeh to experience the traditions alongside his family.
Palestinians see an "explosive potential" with Israel's new hardline government in power — while Jews from Israel and the U.S. grapple with "a dramatic change."
"I believe that the Holocaust was about race," Goldberg said in an apology, adding that she's still "learning a lot."
Today is Christmas and at sundown this evening--the 8th night of Hannukah, the Jewish holiday that's become known known as the Festival of Lights.
Before the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, there were around 80,000 Egyptian Jews in the country. Now there are 3, and the youngest, at 70, is worried about what comes next.
