The federal security-grant pool has grown thirtyfold in two decades and still turns away more than half its applicants. Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, American congregations are budgeting for security like it's permanent — because it is.
A grant-funded mental-health network, a security-coordination model now copied in fourteen cities, and a question about what comes next.
Enrollment in undergraduate Yiddish has tripled in a decade. The students aren't who you'd guess and they aren't studying what you'd think.
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All articles →A working group of relatives spent eight weeks building a single ask. It landed last week. The mechanics are quietly important.
Ninety hours of oral history. Six thousand photographs. A 2,500-year community telling itself for the first time on its own terms.
Three waves, 130 years, one neighborhood. A short history drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives — and what it tells us about what's still here.
Community notebook
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Departments
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Reporting on community institutions, communal affairs, and current events.
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Books, theatre, music, language, and the long memory of Jewish letters.
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Civil rights, antisemitism, hostage advocacy, religious liberty.
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The communities outside Israel — from Tehran to Buenos Aires, Vilnius to Los Angeles.
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The Rauh archives, the immigrant waves, and the long memory of Pittsburgh Jewry.