Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons, who discovered she was Jewish later in life, found that the terrorist attack brought up buried trauma
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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is set to retire from Congregation Beit Simchat Torah after 32 years as its spiritual leader
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Yael and Adi Alexander last spoke to their son, Edan, a lone soldier in the IDF, on the morning of Oct. 7. 'I just want to hug Edan,' Yael said.
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Despite rising antisemitism, interest in conversion is up and those already on the path are sticking with it
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Akiva and Chava Hart and their 6 children converted to Judaism Nov. 5, but have been creating Jewish content online for a year
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There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
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‘We operate under the assumption that democracy is fragile,’ said Aaron Dorfman, the executive director of the project
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'I wanted to show up as a Jewish person,' says US doctor working with Israeli group in Poland and Ukraine
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