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Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...

Each shofar has a unique undulating shape and trumpeting sound. The sound may be low and haunting or bold and ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

A few weeks ago, I celebrated the marriage of two dear friends.  Along with the biological and chosen families of ...

A few summers ago, on a trip through Samaria, Israel, a passage in this week’s Torah portion jumped out of ...

Jews get lumped together a lot. Polls refer to “the Jewish vote.” We hear about the “Jewish response.” Labels of Jewish are ...

If you’ve got nothing to do for the next twelve consecutive days, and don’t need any sleep. starting tonight you ...

I spend my workdays gathering and leveraging financial resources for grassroots community organizers and artists working at the intersection of ...

These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...

To My Bais Yaakov Education,I thought I knew what I was getting into when I made the jump from a ...

There’s a reason you haven’t seen me online much this summer. I went underground to avoid the graphic images of ...

My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us ...

Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the ...

“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?”The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask people ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...