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“Mom!” My sixteen year old son, Sage, announced excitedly to me at a Bat Mitzvah party this past weekend, a ...

My family has always been the foundation of my life. I have very strong bonds with both my parents. Over ...

I’ve never met Pamela Geller, but she’s part of my extended family. As far as I know, we aren’t related ...

This time of year, we read a very infamous Torah portion: Parashat Tazria-Metzora, a double Torah portion, which is widely ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

As I look at the headlines, I see continuing fallout from police killing another black man, this time in Baltimore. ...

You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...

I’m a cat person. I currently have a sweet cat named Ella, who moved down to Mississippi with me last ...

My 19-month-old daughter loves watching for school buses. She camps out on our couch, eyes eagerly scanning for any sign of yellow, and ...

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

I have been in and out of sleep all night. I wake automatically reaching for the remote to see if ...

This is the final in a short series on adoption in Jewish families. Enjoy!In 1988, I had my entire life ...

 “April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.” —T.S. ...

The use of tzniut, modesty, as a cudgel against Jewish women has been well documented in the JOFA Journal, conferences, ...

When I was in high school, I boarded a bus every Saturday morning to take extracurricular classes on topics like ...