In between bouts and mixing it up at his Brooklyn gym, the world junior middleweight champion is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi. The Belarussian-born, Israeli-reared 29-year-old discusses his boxing—and spiritual—journey. ...

97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the

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by Steven Philp While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that

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By Adina Rosenthal There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who

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It’s a behavior every Jewish person has participated, and all of their non-Jewish friends have witnessed. Jewish geography: the game

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by Theodore Samets “Of the roughly 17,000 guys who’ve played professional baseball, precious few are Jews.” That was how Scott

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by Steven Philp For centuries Jews have been the target of damaging stereotypes; yet in our effort to battle unfavorable

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by Charles Kopel “Education is a human right,” declared Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner to an applauding crowd of

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By Adina Rosenthal Move over Manischewitz; Jewish wine is no longer synonymous with the sweet, syrupy stuff used for Jewish

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Since 1932, the Maccabiah Games have drawn the finest Jewish athletes to participate in a wide array of events. ...

by Hilary Weissman While studying abroad in Spain this spring. I found myself unintentionally making numerous trips to the southern

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Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such as Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak.

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