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Speaking to Two Audiences at Once

The rabbis give their visitors one answer and their students another. What gives?

Menarche

This ceremony uses elements of Jewish and other traditions to share a sense of possibility and openness with a newly menstruant girl.

Shabbat for Families

How to make Shabbat your family's favorite day of the week.

Martyrdom in Judaism

The notion of what constitutes a Jewish martyr has changed significantly since ancient times.

How to Plan a Jewish Wedding

A checklist of 7 things to consider, from clergy to chuppah.

Polygamy in Judaism

Once a tolerated and regulated practice, polygamy is virtually unheard of in Jewish life today.

The Seven Genders in the Talmud

Judaism has recognized nonbinary persons for millennia.

The Joint

Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...

Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

Secular No More

A true story of an Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Israel who left Ultra-Orthodoxy for a secular Israeli Lifestyle.

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