Given the choice of European, Caribbean, or Californian etrogim, American Jews opted for neither the most familiar option nor...
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Book Reviews // Sara Jo Ben Zvi
When Leopold Cohn encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity, he urged them to retain their Jewish identity as well....
Ever since the position of Hasidic master began to pass as an inheritance from father to son, children have...
Variant versions of a Hasidic story may reveal the fears and doubts of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzhak...
Two orphans are about to tie the knot. But the wedding procession leads to the local cemetery. What was...
New Year cards have been popular for close to a hundred years, but today the Internet era has...
Rooting the Rebbe’s far-reaching campaigns directly in the Baal Shem Tov’s ideology, Wexler explains why Schneerson’s vision was best...
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