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I am sad. I am scared. I am angry.Like many of you, over the last few weeks, I’ve been following ...

This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

This is the first post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

I am Jewish. I am a historian. And, as my name attests—I am also Cajun French, so I was most ...

What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...

A few weeks ago Elad Nehorai of Pop Chassid posted a provocative piece entitled, “Jews, It’s Time To Abolish The ...

I am coming up on my one-year anniversary of working at the Jewish Women’s Archive.  It’s a pleasant shock that ...

I do not want to write about the horrific deaths of the three Israeli boys. I had other things I ...

I’m a Latina Jew. I live in New York City, famous for the diversity of its population; after all, 37 ...

Last night, I had the great honor of reading from my new novel,  The Anatomy Lesson  (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) inside ...

Shaily Hakiman attended Tel Aviv’s Pride celebration earlier this summer. Today on our blog, she reflects on the experience. To see ...

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