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Facing the (Passover) music at Yad Vashem

WATCH: Obama to receive musical notes to original Passover melody composed by former chief cantor of Amsterdam, who was killed in Holocaust.

By Judy Maltz | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:07 PM

Jewish World Features

Male Jews of Thessaloniki are registered

Greece finally commemorates the destruction of Thessaloniki's Jewish community

Saturday's march, marking 70 years since the first Jews of the city were deported, was a turning point in Greece's grappling with its past.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 20, 2013 | 02:57 AM | 4

Young Greek Jews on a Taglit Birthright tour of Israel.

Rekindling the Jewish flame in young Greeks

While their community at home was commemorating the 70th anniversary of Nazi deportations, 37 young Greek Jews were making a different kind of history - as members of the first Taglit Birthright tour of Israel from their country.

By Judy Maltz | Mar 18, 2013 | 11:45 PM | 2

Divestment movement gaining ground on California campuses

Student senates at three University of California schools have passed resolutions calling on the state's higher education system to divest from Israel, fueling talk of a national trend.

By Dina Kraft | Mar 17, 2013 | 06:35 PM | 24

Jewish U.S. figure skating champ takes a quadruple leap of faith

A strong showing at the World Championships positions Max Aaron, the U.S. men's figure skating champion with a strong connection to Judaism, as someone to watch at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

By Kathy Rumleski | Mar 17, 2013 | 12:51 PM | 2

Rabbi Yosef Lipsker speaking to visitors

Passover without wine? For Jewish addicts, sober seders are a life-saver

Rabbi cites 'pikuach nefesh,' the Jewish principle that saving a life takes precedence over other religious strictures, in excusing alcoholics from the law of drinking wine during the Passover seder.

By JTA | Mar 15, 2013 | 05:37 PM | 2

Pope Francis, or Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he was previously known.

White smoke at the Vatican, cloudy skies on the horizon for Italian Jews

The choice of the new pope seems to bode well for Jews, based on his past ties with them. Besides, there are other, urgent issues of concern for Italian Jewry − and Israel − stemming from the emergence of a new political power in Rome.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 15, 2013 | 09:08 AM

The Facebook page set up to find Jeno (Jolli) Gottesmann

Holocaust survivor searches for long-lost twin on Facebook

Sixty-eight years after they were separated, an Israeli survivor has created a Facebook page in search of his brother, known as 'child survivor A7734 from Auschwitz.'

By Ofer Aderet | Mar 15, 2013 | 02:40 AM

People watch Pope Francis on a giant screen in St. Peter's square

Separating Vatican myths from reality

The pope could teach our politicians and rabbis how to separate synagogue, state.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 15, 2013 | 01:48 AM

'Repairing the world' was Aaron Swartz’s calling

Remembering the Internet’s open-access Robin Hood at MIT

By Dina Kraft | Mar 14, 2013 | 07:28 PM | 2

Meet Patti Stanger, reality TV's yenta extraordinaire

'The Millionaire Matchmaker' may spout obnoxious, traditional advice to an endless supply of wealthy, desperate losers. But she also may be on to something.

By Amy Klein | Mar 14, 2013 | 12:27 PM

The great knish comeback: Pizza and pumpkin, anyone?

Knish parmesan is a little weird, admits the doyenne of the doughy delights, Laura Silver. But even in its kicky new forms the comfort food of yore is showing remarkable staying power.

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Mar 14, 2013 | 10:21 AM

Torah-based help for porn addicts, free and confidential

Jews 'caught in the shmutz' and unable to shake off the 'yetzer hara' can find support with Guard Your Eyes. It will even snitch to the rabbi for you.

By Andrew Esensten | Mar 13, 2013 | 08:12 AM

Jewish World News

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

New Yorker jailed in Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger's 1990 killing could be freed

By The Associated Press | 05:33 PM | 3

A nun holds a photograph of Pope Francis during a Thanksgiving Mass for the newly elected pope

Pope’s book co-authored with rabbi to be translated into English

By Reuters | 03:49 PM

U.S. appeals court hears 'Jerusalem is Israel' passport case

By JTA | 02:20 PM | 24

Jewish World features

Kosher wine evolves from cheap syrup to collectible vintage

By The Associated Press | 10:12 PM | 10

Randy Levine: president of the Bronx Bombers, patron of IDF soldiers (and their dogs)

By Chemi Shalev | 07:25 PM | 6

Ultra-Orthodox female EMT group approved in New York State

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen | 05:31 PM | 6

The Jewish Thinker

It’s time to end the slavery of narrow-mindedness

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 12:06 PM

Forget the ultra-Orthodox; focus on settlers

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 12:14 AM

Moderate rabbis are all around us, even in Israel

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger, Emily Levy-Shochat | 02:45 PM | 9

Rabbis' Round Table

A Passover meter for measuring freedom

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 11:27 PM

The Jewish obligation to obliterate the glass ceiling on women

By Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger | 11:25 AM

Coffee, Haggadot, and Jewish assimilation

By Rabbi Joel Seltzer / Jewish World blogger | 11:58 AM