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Thirty years ago, the Sephardic Synagogue on Pavillion Street was packed with children and teens, playing for hours and scampering around the synagogue’s spacious yard. Now, the building once occupied by the

In the year 790, a Bedouin hunter’s dog chased its prey into the mouth of a cave in the rocky cliffs near the Dead Sea. Inside, the hunter discovered jars containing

Arafat Irfaiya, 29, of Hebron was arrested early on Saturday morning on suspicion of sexually assaulting and murdering Ori Ansbacher, a 19-year-old Israeli woman. Forensic evidence found at the scene of

An organization called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had announced plans to move the Bratwurst Museum to a new site that was once part of the Buchenwald concentration camp, sparking

People who are actively engaged in religious life tend to be happier than either those who are religiously unaffiliated or inactive according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of

New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was named Most Valuable Player following his team’s victory against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. After the game,

Wawa, the oddly-named convenience store chain, is a ubiquitous staple in six states and the District of Columbia. Performance artist Brian Feldman had the idea to combine this venerable institution with his religious

Pastor Martin Niemoller famously wrote: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and

In 1944, Veli Shargorodskii, a 42-year-old Jewish man from Odessa, wrote the song On the High Mountain, about the Soviets’ battles against the Nazis. The song ends with the words “Germany

Recipients of the OU’s Women’s Initiative Challenge Grant were featured in a recent issue of Cleveland’s Local Jewish News. The program, titled “Just Breathe,” is part of a three-part, innovative series