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When Maryland Rabbi Sholom Raichik got the chance to save a life, he didn’t hesitate. A little more than two weeks ago, he donated a kidney to a woman he’d never met. “All I know is that she’s a woman in her 70s, and she did send us a very nice note that ...

There have been Jews in Tanzania since the late 1800s, when Yemenite Jews and others founded a thriving community. A generation later, they were joined by Eastern European Jews fleeing the Holocaust. But instability and persecution caused the isolated Jew...

Two Israeli embassy employees were murdered in cold blood on Wednesday evening outside a gathering of young diplomats at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.. The assailant shot and killed them at close range, leaving three others wounded. The ac...

Mykonos is a beautiful Greek island in the Aegean Sea, renowned for its breathtaking sunsets, charming whitewashed alleys, windmills, and pelicans. It is just one island over from Delos, home to the ruin of what is believed to be the oldest synagogue in t...

The opening of Piccolo marks a culinary milestone in the growth of Jewish life in Aruba. The contemporary steakhouse, located at the Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort Spa and Casino, features an open-concept kitchen, all set against a backdrop of jewel-toned gre...

Sholom DovBer Lipskar was in many ways a baby boomer, a child of the post-war generation that would change everything. He, too, had a sort of wild drive to upend this imperfect world. Like the most successful of his contemporaries, he was also blessed wit...

Tzeela Gez, a 30-year-old mother of three, was murdered on Wednesday night in a terror attack in Israel while en route to the hospital to give birth to her fourth child. Tzeela and her husband, Chananel, were traveling from their community of Bruchin in S...

For decades, at nearly every engagement party in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., children would gather near the door, waiting with anticipation. At some point during the celebration, the door would swing open, and the children would shou...

“At the heart of this remembrance lies the profound call to empathy and kindness, to recognize our shared humanity in one another,” said Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir during a moving Holocaust remembrance event in Reykjavik last month. Iceland’s sm...

After 584 days in captivity, Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, 21, was released today as part of negotiations between the United States and the Palestinian terror organization Hamas. His family campaigned tirelessly for his freedom over the past 18...