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The exclusive excerpt below, a continuation of Shabbat Shalom’s mini-series on Jewish communities across America, is courtesy of Dr. Saul Landa, a New Jersey dentist with a passion for photography, author...

After attending the Orthodox Union’s first Emerging Jewish Communities Fair in 2006, Dr. Saul Landa, a New Jersey dentist with a passion for photography, was inspired to publish “A Timeless People”...

The following is a list of the major events leading up to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. First Temple 3316: Yehoyakim ben Yoshiyahu becomes King of...

As the aftermath of the Iasi pogrom left the Jewish body broken, its leaders could do only one thing: rise from the ashes and continue to teach, to learn and live...

I came to Israel one month after the Six Day War, as a teenager with an Instamatic camera, Kodak slide film, a burgeoning love of photography and total awe for the...

Photos by Rebecca Kowalsky and Toby Klein Greenwald. Text by Toby Klein Greenwald Whenever I’ve completed work on a particularly exhausting project and feel the need to “get away from it all,”...

Tel Aviv – the brash, provocative, multicultural and tolerant metropolis called by some the Big Orange – is throwing a year-long birthday bash in honor of the city’s centenary. Judging by...

A few months ago, the normally hostile Iranian regime took the rather unusual step of adding a Jewish holy site to its National Heritage List. On December 9, 2008, Iranian news...

During the recent elections we were often bombarded with reminders of how little things have changed—how politicians promise the world and then keep very little; how parties who are sworn enemies...

The following story is true, however the names and details have been fictionalized. The pounding in Shlomo’s head wouldn’t stop, but it was easily drowned out by the pain in his...