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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 ...

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

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Last Thursday, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, passed away, leaving his bodily existence for…well, for whatever ...

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

I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...

Do you think you could sum up your camp experience in just six words? If not your entire experience, what ...

The Fourth of July is one of those official summer milestones. No matter what part of the country you’re from, ...

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 ...

My life is as a voyeur. In fact, social media has turned us all into complete voyeurs. We follow blogs ...

On June 20th, 2014, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann offered the following words of prayer at the UJA-Federation’s “Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement,” ...

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

For millennia, it has been taken for granted that the place for Jewish women was in the home and in ...