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Visiting Rhode Island's Historic Synagogue
Stepping inside the Touro Synagogue feels a little bit like stepping inside an Old World Sephardic shul. There's a good reason for that: All of the oldest congregations in the New World were founded by Sephardic Jews, including this one.
Abraham, Great-Great Grandma Mary, And Me
My soul is woven from the threads of the stories of all those who came before me.
Strange Fruit
After seeing the infamous 1930 photograph by Lawrence Beitler, which depicts the mob lynching of two young black men, a Jewish high school teacher named Abel Meeropol wrote a haunting poem titled "Strange Fruit." The poem was first published in 1936 in The New York Teacher, a union magaz