Human Interest
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On Yom Kippur morning in Manchester, Yoni Finlay, 39, came to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, U.K. ready to lead prayers. Within moments, a terrorist attacked the synagogue, and Yoni was pulled into a fight to protect his congregation. When police rushed in, shots rang out—and Yoni was hit. What should have been […]
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Wicked: For Good feels less like a sequel and more like a warning flare. After last year’s Wicked used Oz to mirror the early stirrings of fascism, Jon M. Chu returns with a darker, sharper chapter that shows how a society can be hustled into cruelty, one rumor, one scapegoat, one “reasonable” compromise at a […]
1. Modeling the first Thanksgiving on Sukkot America’s first Thanksgiving holiday took place in 1621, just a few months after the first Pilgrim settlers first landed on the shores of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. They arrived in the New World just as winter was approaching, and spent their first few months in Massachusetts huddled on […]
The secret to a happy marriage isn’t romance—it’s realism. Rabbi Avigdor Miller, one of the great Torah thinkers of the 20th century known for his humor, warmth, and relentless focus on gratitude, believed that love grows not from passion, but from patience. His Ten Commandments of Marriage distill that wisdom into ten deceptively simple truths—each […]
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Empires rose and fell, but Judaism endured. What's the secret?
