My Jewish Learning

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.


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Articles by My Jewish Learning

Jewish Chaplaincy: A Vital Presence in Jewish Communal Life

Jewish chaplains are active in hospitals, long term care facilities, hospices, adult living facilities, prisons and other contexts. This free ...

University of the Aegean: Social Anthropology and History Department

University of the Aegean is a public university located in Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, Syros, and Lemnos, Greece.

Sephardic, Mizrahi, and LGBTQ+: Lifting Our Stories Out of the Margins

Join My Jewish Learning for a lively discussion with Ruben Shimonov about an often-overlooked segment of the Jewish world: LGBTQ+ ...

Virtual Walking Tour: Jewish Budapest (Agi Antal)

In a city that has seen extremes of both ruin and redevelopment in the last 100 years, Budapest’s Jewish Quarter ...

Queer Ladino: An Archival Adventure with Nesi Altaras

Join My Jewish Learning for a conversation on LGBTQ Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) terminology with Nesi Altaras. This terminology developed after Spanish ...

Salim Halali: Bringing Down the House

In this workshop, learn a famous hit by Salim Halali, one of the greatest singers of 1960s North Africa. Halali ...

The Synagogues of Greece with Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos

  Exploring the history, architecture, and culture of Jewish spaces in Greece .    

The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America – Dr. Laura Leibman

Born a slave in colonial Barbados in 1798, Sarah Brandon Rodrigues’ distinguished Sephardic roots grant her passage to freedom and ...

When the World Was Closed: Shanghai and the Refugee Jews of WWII

Approximately 18,000 European Jews fleeing Nazism in the 1930s and 40s found refuge in Shanghai, which did not require entry ...

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