Rachel Scheinerman
Rachel Scheinerman is the editor of My Jewish Learning. She holds an MA in Scripture & Interpretation from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Rabbinic Literature from Yale University.
Articles by Rachel Scheinerman
Parashat Metzora: Healing From the Mysterious and Incomprehensible
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Metzorah, is primarily concerned with a peculiar biblical affliction called tzaraat (tzah-RAH-at). Commonly mistranslated as ...
Why Passover Is Important
Commemorating the foundational event in Jewish history makes Jews who they are.
