Three Russian-born Jewish geniuses
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN About the only good thing to be said for Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement under...
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Mental health conference offers guidance for recovery
Nearly 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2018, evidence of a devastating addiction crisis and a related crisis in...
He’s back to playing like Fred Hersch
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In his exemplary 2017 memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz, acclaimed...
A storied palace in Prague
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER World War I ended the power of European monarchs, but a final palace would yet arise...
My congregation prayed at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we are coping this Rosh Hashana.
By BETH KISSILEFF PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Our sages teach us that “kol hatchalot kashot,” all beginnings are difficult. This phrase...