New York-based Ezra Feig, an avid runner, took to Instagram to start a group for the like-minded after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He wanted—or rather, needed—to have something to support him and others through that difficult time. For its first run in Central Park that month, the club, called Nice Jewish Runners, drew about 40 people.

What started out as a vehicle for companionship and comfort took off—or rather, took to the pavement.

Feig, 34, a health-care CMO, had previously thought casually about starting a Jewish running club, but it took the stress and intensity of that day and its aftermath to turn the plan into reality. Now at the two-year mark, Nice Jewish Runners exists in 20 cities, with several thousand members running side by side.

“It’s been

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