A little synagogue in the land of pagodas
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – A beautiful synagogue amidst mosques and Hindu temples in a city most famous for its shimmering pagodas, Musmeah Yeshua is…
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5 easy ways to get the smell of fried latkes out of your house
by Shannon Sarna (This article originally appeared in The Nosher.) – Everyone loves eating latkes. Some people don’t even mind frying the latkes. Almost everyone loathes…
Meet the rabbi-and-sabermetrician duo behind Virtual Dreidel, a game made for pandemic Hanukkah
by Philissa Cramer (JTA) — Back in the spring, when Jewish camps all canceled their summer sessions seemingly overnight, Rabbi Shayna Golkow knew she wanted to…
I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens and the story got complicated.
by Rabbi Eliran Shabo ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — When my wife and I arrived in this capital city on Sept. 1 to serve as rabbinical…
From the Sources: Happy Herod’s Day
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The first-century C.E. Latin satirist Persius Flaccus devoted one of his poems to the theme that even persons who are…