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I’m thinking a lot about Shabbat candle lighting nowadays, in part because I’m awaiting the birth of my first grandchild ...

It was not until she was already on her way to adulthood, that singer Sarah Aroeste discovered the connection between ...

I am what you might call an alternative peace activist. The return to the biblical heartland of Israel — Judea and ...

Purim is the one day of the year I feel empowered in my community. The rest of the year, services ...

Travel in your mind to the top of our atmosphere, where Earth’s envelope of life-giving oxygen and nitrogen blends into the cold vacuum of ...

If you had to pick one figure from Black history who inspires you, who would it be? An unfair question ...

In this week’s Torah portion (Parshat Terumah, Exodus 25:1-27:19), God instructs Moses how Israel should make the sanctuary. He tells Moses, “וְעָשׂוּ ...

I am two thirds a woman. There are only three mitzvot uniquely, singularly, and expressly for women, making up the ...

We all know this adage to be true: History repeats itself. Unless, of course, we can learn from it and ...

I’m one of those hard-to-categorize Jews, caught somewhere between the Conservative and Orthodox denominations. My practice leans Orthodox, my passion ...

Meesh: Back then, in biblical times, the ceiling was not glass, and I don’t think Esther or Ruth made any attempt ...