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

Today’s post is from Education Fellow Amanda Winer. “Kids, let me tell you the story of how I met your ...

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

Want some insights into a historian’s dilemma? It involves cultural identity. Geography. And NASCAR. (Well – sort of.)The Encyclopedia of ...

Why does it sometimes feel almost counter-cultural to pack your kids off to camp? Maybe because we’re living in a ...

Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries ...

I’ll confess right off that this is not my most embarrassing culinary moment, because I actually air the worst ones in my ...

Dearest Students,Early on in the academic year (and the Jewish New Year!), I thought it would be a poignant time ...

I recently met a woman who I really liked. We have a lot in common, being  professionally accomplished Jewish women ...

Occasionally, a book about Jewish prayer will tell you that Judaism discourages spontaneous prayer. That magic of Jewish prayer, the ...

Today’s reflective post comes from Education Fellow Lex Rofes.The end of summer can be a whirlwind for ISJL Education Fellows, ...

This past Sunday I convinced my sons to join me out back to put up our Sukkah, ritual dwelling for Sukkot, arguing that ...

“How do I go on?”  I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...

My mother always told us she could do magic. And though my sisters and I were modern children of the ...

Sukkot offers some incredible starting points for discussion. The Sukkot holiday begins tonight and lasts for a week. Among other things, ...