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By Elizabeth Johnson Where does the time go? To me, there never seems to be enough of it during the workday, on weekends, and especially when I am on vacation. As I sat down to write this, a social media post informed me that Chanukah is only 87 days away! The endless race against the…

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By Joseph Strauss (New York Jewish Week) April 7, 2025 Streit’s, the kosher food company that’s best known for its matzah, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And while many things have changed since the matzah bakery was first opened on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side in 1925 — most notably, the bakery…

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By Charlotte Rouchouze The Charlotte Jewish News, March, 2025 One of the things I appreciate most about Judaism is the incredible richness of our holiday calendar. These beautiful festivals carry us from month to month and from season to season. As someone who has studied literature, I also appreciate the literary quality of our holidays.…

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By Charlotte Rouchouze Charlotte Jewish News, November 2024 Recently, I was reading through a small volume entitled “Judaism,” which I picked up at some point over the years from my grandmother’s bookshelf. The book was published in 1957 for the “instruction of proselytes” by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Reform rabbinic leadership organization,…

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By Jacob Gurvis (JTA) — We are officially one week into the 2024 Paris Olympics, and there’s plenty of news to recap — from several Jewish medalists to security threats against Israel’s delegation. Let’s dig in. These 10 Jews have won medals at the Paris Olympics The biggest Jewish story of the 2024 Paris Olympics…

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll, Curt Schleier (JTA) — July 13, 2024 Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive Holocaust survivor and Israeli military veteran who charmed and educated millions of listeners as the taboo-breaking radio sex therapist “Dr. Ruth,” died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Her program, “Sexually Speaking,’” which launched in 1980 on…

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Listen to this article https://charlottejewishnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Oscars-Post.mp3 By Andrew Lapin (JTA), January 23, 2024 – The year’s biggest movie phenomenon was a one-two punch of blockbusters with Jewish roots — and they both came up big at Tuesday’s Oscar nominations. “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the Jewish “father of the atomic bomb,” led the year’s nominations with…

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Listen to this article https://charlottejewishnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Tattooist-of-Auschwitz.mp3 By Shira Bartov (JTA) January 17, 2024 — The story of real Auschwitz survivor Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was forced to tattoo numbers on his fellow inmates and implausibly fell in love with a girl he was tattooing, is coming to TV on May 2. “The Tattooist of…

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