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Articles by My Jewish Learning

The Shofar Blasts

The ram's horn is blown on the High Holidays in three specific ways.

Excerpt: Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska (1925)

Anzia Yezierska's book explores the early 20th-century immigrant experience, and women's place in it.

El Shema

Una afirmación de la singularidad de Dios, su recitación diaria es vista por los judíos observantes tradicionalistas como un mandamiento bíblico.

Tipos de judíos

Los muchos subgrupos étnicos y religiosos dentro de la comunidad judía.

Los judíos y el sexo premarital

La actitud del judaísmo hacia el sexo premarital es intrigante. La Torá no lo proscribe, como lo hace con muchos ...

¿Qué es lo que creen los judíos acerca de Jesús?

Cómo el judaísmo ve al hombre que los cristianos veneran como el Mesías.

Puntos de vista judíos sobre la homosexualidad

Los temas sobre la homosexualidad en el judaísmo

Cómo hacer una visita de Shive

No estamos solos: este es el mensaje fundamental del judaísmo acerca de la muerte y el duelo. Cada ley y ...

Todo lo que necesitas saber si te invitan a un bar o bat mitzvá

Qué esperar y cómo comportarte en un bar or bat mitzvá.

Text of Avinu Malkeinu

This series of petitions addressed to "Our Father, Our King," is recited on Yom Kippur and other fast days.

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