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The Jewish Reporter, a 33-year-old Las Vegas-area newspaper, is folding after Rosh Hashanah, the Las Vegas Sun reports today. Like most Jewish newspapers in the United States, the publication—which is free and has a circulation of about 17,000—was funded by its local Jewish Federation and focused on local events. “We had to reevaluate our ...

United Jewish Communities, the money-hemorrhaging umbrella organization for the North American Jewish federation system, announced yesterday that its new president and CEO will be Jerry Silverman, who since 2004 has headed the small but scrappy Foundation for Jewish Camp, a non-profit dedicated to bolstering the fortunes of North America’s Jewish summer overnight camps. In a ...

In his work on the laws of teshuva, Maimonides outlined a three-step how-to guide for sinners soliciting forgiveness: abandon the sin, regret it, and accept a different future path. The twelfth-century philosopher’s target audience was individuals, not art museums. But since the latest exhibition at Chicago’s Spertus Museum opened just days before the High Holidays, ...