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Articles by My Jewish Learning

Hanukkah: The Festival of Cheese with Vered Guttman

Potato latkes aren’t the only tradition on Hanukkah, there’s actually another-cheese! Join Israeli chef and food writer Vered Guttman to ...

Hanukkah: The Festival of Cheese with Vered Guttman

Potato latkes aren’t the only tradition on Hanukkah, there’s actually another-cheese! Join Israeli chef and food writer Vered Guttman to ...

Get Lit, Bitch: A Hanukkah Comedy Show

On Hanukkah, Jews come together to light the menorah, play dreidel and reflect on the miracle that happened to our ...

Dinner with Ruth Bader Ginsberg: The Power of Friendship

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nina Totenberg were friends for nearly 50 years, meeting long before Ruth became a Supreme Court ...

All About the Concept of Kehilah (Community)

Bring your lunch and learn all about the concept of Kehilah (community) with Tziporah Altman-Shafer of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.

New York Jewish Book Festival: Fleishman Is in Trouble

The New York Jewish Book Festival opens with a screening of the first episode of Fleishman Is in Trouble followed ...

Tu Bishvat 2023

In 2023, the "birthday of the trees" begins at sundown on Sunday, Feb. 5 and ends at sundown on Monday, Feb. 6.

“Did You Hear What Happened to Dina?”: Responses to Abuse in the Torah + Today

The Biblical story of the assault of Dina and its violent aftermath makes for difficult reading. Many of us have ...

Judith the Chanukah Heroine

Too scandalous for the Jewish canon, considered the world’s first work of historical fiction, and saved from obscurity by early ...

The Yahuda Collection of Isaac Newton Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel

The National Library of Israel in cooperation with the Cambridge University Library invites you to a new series of lectures ...