#  Judaism 

 



##  Judaism 

 

 

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##  Essays 

 



  [### Introduction to Judaism

 ](/introduction-to-judaism) 

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  [### Judaism in America

 ](/judaism-in-america) 

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  [### The Jewish Experience

 ](/the-jewish-experience) 

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  [### Issues for Jews in America

 ](/issues-for-jews-in-america) 

   ![Vigil in Boston](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/L%20%20Ofsevit%20Vigil%20pic.jpg?itok=6FMPvb52) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  Glossary 

 



  [### matzah

 ](/matzah) 

   [### menorah

 ](/menorah) 

   [### Jeremiah

 ](/jeremiah) 

   [### Orthodox Judaism

 ](/orthodox-judaism) 

   [### High Holy Days

 ](/high-holy-days) 

   [### Rosh Hashanah

 ](/rosh-hashanah) 

   [### daven

 ](/daven) 

   [### Messiah

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##  Selected Publications 

 



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### 2025

Buchdahl, Angela. *[The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging](/publication/heart-stranger-unlikely-rabbis-story-faith-identity-and-belonging)*. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.



 

 

Buchdahl, Angela. *[The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging](/publication/heart-stranger-unlikely-rabbis-story-faith-identity-and-belonging)*. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.



 

 

 

 

 



### 2021

Oppenheimer, Mark. *[Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood](/publication/squirrel-hill-tree-life-synagogue-shooting-and-soul-neighborhood)*. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.



 

 

Oppenheimer, Mark. *[Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood](/publication/squirrel-hill-tree-life-synagogue-shooting-and-soul-neighborhood)*. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.



 

 

 

 

Sarna, Jonathan, ed. *[Coming to Terms With America](/publication/coming-terms-america)*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.



 

 

Sarna, Jonathan, ed. *[Coming to Terms With America](/publication/coming-terms-america)*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.



 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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##  Selected Links 

 



  [### Union for Reform Judaism

 ](https://www.urj.org) 

   [### U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 ](https://www.ushmm.org) 

   [### Tikkun: A Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society

 ](https://www.tikkun.org) 

   [### Rabbinical Council of America

 ](https://www.rabbis.org) 

   [### New Israel Fund

 ](https://www.nif.org) 

   [### National Yiddish Book Center

 ](https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org) 

  

 

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### Explore Judaism in Greater Boston 

 

In 1649, a Sephardic Jew named Solomon Franco arrived from New Amsterdam (later New York City) and became the first Jew to live in the Boston area. In 1852, Temple Ohabei Shalom became the first synagogue in the Boston area, marking the transition in Boston Jewish history between a record of Jewish individuals to a record of Jewish congregations and organizations. As of 2015, there are 248,000 Jews living in Boston.



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