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A Jewish film festival centered on social justice could give Los Angeles a powerful way to bring people together around stories, values, and practical…

Jewish communities are rich in goodwill, professional expertise, lived experience, and practical creativity. Yet good intentions do not always become useful…

Jewish communities are rich with makers whose work carries memory, ritual, and regional character. A ceramicist may shape a modern kiddush cup, a textile…

A Jewish community can gather around many forms of culture, but few are as immediate as singing together. A familiar melody can cross generations, languages,…

A career decision can shape far more than a résumé. For young Jewish adults, work influences where they live, how they spend their time, which communities they…

Jewish life grows through relationships. Congregations, schools, cultural centers, social-service agencies, youth organizations, libraries, museums, and…

Jewish families are raising children in a noisy, rapidly changing world. Parents want their sons and daughters to feel connected to Jewish identity, community,…

A Jewish innovation hackathon brings people together to develop practical responses to community needs. In a concentrated event, participants identify a…

Jewish communities have long treated mutual responsibility as a sacred obligation. When families lose housing, when older adults become isolated, when refugees…

Jewish communities are full of thoughtful conversations that rarely travel beyond a synagogue classroom, neighborhood gathering, campus group, or kitchen…