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After the end of my two-year term as an ISJL Education Fellow, I moved back to Massachusetts to begin rabbinical ...

Sunday night (October 4, 2015) begins Shemini Atzeret, the last festival in the summer/fall Jewish holiday cycle. For many moderns, ...

From the middle to the end of last week, I was having conversations about Pope Francis’ speeches each and every day ...

Three females — a 63-year-old, a 41-year-old, and an 11-year-old — have much in common. In addition to their blond, ...

When you live in the Deep South — and especially when you have to travel a lot for work — ...

Back in biblical times, Israelites would come to the great Temple three times a year, in the fall, and at ...

I grew up in a fairly small Jewish community. In the ’80s, Austin, Texas was not the cool mecca it ...

Last week, Kveller, a partner site of MyJewishLearning, published a provocative piece about one woman’s experience being Jewish in the ...

As a rabbi who is blessed with the humbling privilege of leading her congregation, after the High Holy Days have ...

Sukkot, which begins Sunday, is called by our sages, “The season of our rejoicing.” But why should we rejoice?Just this ...

When I tell people that I live in Jackson, Mississippi, they often remark on how “different” it must be from ...

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...

Dear School Officials,Today is Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar. It is the Day of Atonement, ...

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of reading a very touching piece by Dr. Oliver Sacks z”l ...

The High Holidays are the worst days to experience the personality and atmosphere of a synagogue.