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Articles by My Jewish Learning
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 ...
How Can Qohelet Quell the Curious Mind? An Exploration of a New Translation and Commentaries on the Strangest Book of the Hebrew Bible
Merest Breath is a provocative and contemporary translation with two new commentaries on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). These eclectic commentaries on one ...
Jewcology, Israel, and Tu B’Shvat
How did a holiday that originated in Temple times wind up inspiring Jewcology (Jewish environmentalism)? Tu B’Shvat has developed alongside ...
The Fight Against Antisemitism after October 7
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, there has been a surge in antisemitism worldwide. AJU President Jeffrey ...
Beshallach: Stepping into Nationhood
Join our popular series developing Rabbi Sacks’ thought on the weekly parasha, along with a community of learners from around ...
Kabbalistic Tu b’Shvat Seder
Experience the deep spiritual significance of this mystical holiday and join Jay in an authentic, but virtual, Tu b’Shvat kabbalistic ...
Shotns/Shadows: A New Album from the Fortunoff Archive
Join YIVO for a performance of the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies’ newest album, Shotns/Shadows. Part of the ...
Join Us for The Amen Effect: A Conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous
UJA-Federation of New York and the New York Jewish Week invite you to a conversation with one of the most ...