From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: The fascination with vaccination
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Rabbi Pinhas Elijah Hurwitz was an itinerant Lithuanian scholar whose travels took him to Galicia, Poland, Prussia, Holland, Hungary and…
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Attention Jewish Athletes: Maccabiah Games will be held in Israel July 2022
(AJNews) – Lace up your shoes and stretch your quads: the Maccabiah Games are back in Israel next July! The world’s third largest sporting event…
Edmonton’s Aviv Israeli Folk Dancers reflect on a year of virtual dance
By Jenna Blair Soroka (AJNews) – Spring is usually the time of the year where the Aviv Israeli Folk Dance Association (AIFDA) and Rikud Academy…
Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch
by Emily Burack (JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the…
How Fleischmann’s yeast built the Jewish Catskills
by Joel Haber (This article originally appeared on The Nosher.) Many home cooks this past year, in an Instagram-inspired spirit, upped their challah-baking game with new braiding…