Synagogues are grappling with financial challenges as they prepare for the High Holidays amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth," edited by Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, delves into perspectives on the Book of Ruth from various angles, contemplating the intersection of Jewish peoplehood and conversion.

Dr. Lonnie Bunch III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses the historical and current state of Black-Jewish relations in America, exploring the existence of a shared agenda.

Between the late 1960s and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, nearly two million Jews left Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of the Soviet Empire, with support from diaspora Jewish communities globally, particularly in the United States.