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Saying No to Silencing: The Jewish Duty to Speak Out

Spirituality is biography. Jewish spirituality and Jewish biography both demand a duty to speak out, reject silencing, and stand up against any ...

Last week, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) issued a resolution demonstrating for the second time in less than six ...

The following story and recipe come from the book Traditional Jewish Baking by Carine Goren. I was never able to ...

I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...

This summer, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world in Jackson, Mississippi. Ever since, the birth ...

The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families.Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, Sarah ...

How is a baby made? More specifically, what determines the future characteristics of the child? One answer emerges from the ...

Hanukkah is a time for celebrating the power of light to dispel darkness, so this year I’m setting aside the ...

My three-year-old daughter doesn’t miss a thing. She notices when we move the snow shovels from one side of the garage ...

There is no doubt that tikkun olam, the act of repairing the world, is an important and widely valued idea ...

Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? I was, but I’ve been taking a course — well, ...

Last month, 150 members of the Southern Jewish Historical Society gathered for their 41st annual conference. Even for a group ...