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Why most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot even though their countries grow the fruit

Rabbinical authorities have long debated the authenticity of Asian etrogs — even though the fruit originated in southwest China.

By Jordyn Haime September 27, 2023 4:57 pm

How roving rabbis help the few Jews of rural Australia celebrate Rosh Hashanah

Since the 1980s, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has sent emissaries to some of the most remote places on earth — including these places in the outback.

September 13, 2023 4:38 pm

A Talmudic tale gets a 12th-century Chinese twist in children’s book aimed at diverse Jewish readers

Erica Lyons, who is raising Chinese children in Hong Kong, is writing a series of children’s books about diverse Jews.

September 12, 2023 11:43 am

Ireland’s first kosher restaurant in decades attracts local Jews and non-Jewish celebrities

By Jacob Judah September 6, 2023 10:00 am

Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail system is finally opening — but not on Shabbat

By Deborah Danan August 17, 2023 8:18 am

Paul Cohen at his home in Narsaq, Greenland

The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on earth’

By Dan Fellner August 15, 2023 1:44 pm

When campers’ luggage got stranded, a Ramah alum’s new trucking company stepped in

By Jackie Hajdenberg August 11, 2023 4:30 pm

David Corenswet, the next Superman, was married by a rabbi and a priest in New Orleans

By Gabe Friedman August 9, 2023 3:19 pm

Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine after a war-induced exile — now with a bomb shelter

By Shira Li Bartov August 8, 2023 1:11 pm

The song in an ad for an Israeli sandwich shop has become a nationwide party anthem

By Deborah Danan July 31, 2023 3:46 pm

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