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Stop Trying to Get Everyone On the Same Page

While on the surface, the last two posts on this blog from my colleagues, Laura Duhan Kaplan and Joshua Ratner, are about ...

A new issue of the JOFA Journal will soon be in our subscribers’ mailboxes; its theme is Orthodox women in ...

Recently, a journalist who was interviewing me asked me to describe what it felt like to be a Jewish New ...

Just as words can push people apart, so too can they bring us closer.

In his anger, Moses uses a destructive label for his people in public.

The prayer book Siddur Eit Ratzon includes a contemporary prayer for Israel. “We affirm that it is possible for Jews ...

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

Click here for part 1 of this series. Rabbi Benay Lappe instructed us in the traditional method of Talmud study, ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

My husband and I recently journeyed from New Orleans to Israel—a first trip for him, an always-sacred return for me. ...

In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...

I know that attending the Yeshivat Maharat graduation is the “right thing to do” but it is easy to forget, ...