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My Jewish Learning is the leading independent website and digital community for all things Jewish, from Jewish history to text to ritual to prayer to food and much more. We offer a robust website with thousands of articles answering nearly every possible question about Judaism and Jewish life, a daily newsletter guiding subscribers through interesting facts and must-read news about Jewish life and practice, a daily Talmud essay called "A Daily Dose of Talmud," a weekly Shabbat newsletter, dozens of special emails featuring insights into major Jewish topics, and a robust online community through our social media channels. Articles written with the My Jewish Learning byline are authored and edited by our staff. My Jewish Learning's staff includes leading Jewish scholars and journalists. Rachel Scheinerman, who holds a doctorate in Ancient Judaism from Yale University, is My Jewish Learning's Editor, and Ben Harris, a longtime, award-winning journalist covering Jewish topics, is Managing Editor.


Articles by My Jewish Learning

Advanced Level I Hebrew Reading

Designed for those who know their letters and vowels, who can decode and form words or are graduates of the ...

Jews and the Jazz Revolution

Join this melodic exploration of a rich and diverse tradition that has not only reflected the Jewish-American experience but has ...

Jews of Argentina: “They sowed seeds and harvested doctors”

Join a virtual tour of Jewish Argentina, the 6th largest Jewish Community in the world. Argentina has always been a ...

Inseparable: How A Set of Twins Survived the Holocaust Together with Michael Berenbaum and Marion Ein Lewin

Marion Ein Lewin and her twin brother Steven Hess were just six years old when they were taken to Bergen-Belsen ...

Kindness During The Holocaust: Untold Stories From Cuba, Corsica, Malta, And Calabria

Travel with BZD and Irene Shaland to Cuba, Malta, Corsica, and Calabria, a trip that she calls “the Islands and ...

Dublin’s “Little Jerusalem”: A Jewish History of Ireland

The Irish-Jewish community was a small but influential part of Irish society from the moment they first set foot in ...

Beyond the Yiddishe Mama

This series delves deep into the ever-evolving portrayal of Jewish identity, both its challenges and triumphs, in the medium of ...

Addressing Antisemitism: Contemporary Challenges

The Center for Jewish History is proud to present the symposium, Addressing Antisemitism: Contemporary Challenges, which seeks to confront the ...

How To Use the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Database for Jewish Genealogy

“The Five Families of Records of the USCIS Genealogy Program” will be the topic of genealogist Alec Ferretti for the ...

The New Man as Man Machine: A Book Talk by Eckhart Gillen, Berlin

Fifteen years after the great financial crisis of 2008, which shook the capitalist economic system in America and Europe to ...