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The Destination: Israel

I experience the world through Jewish history. I came by it honestly, having been a lifelong avid student of Jewish ...

Jealousy can paralyze us and force us to define ourselves by another person's successes.

There is always a price when we give in to temptation.

All this week, we’re deeply engaged in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50 events taking place in Jackson, Mississippi.We’ll be sharing ...

“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no ...

I am headed to Israel today for three glorious weeks of working, traveling and what else: eating.Last summer I was ...

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 ...