Partner Blogs
Coming to Learn, Going to Teach
When you think “summer in Mississippi,” the first thing that comes to mind is the heat.But for some people, what ...
Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood
If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...
Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...
The Power of Gratitude
A simple street scene glimpsed on the early morning commute. A woman in her forties dressed in a sari, a ...
Chaim Sheba
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...
Reform Women Rabbis Being Heard
In the midst of much activity in Israel in the ongoing push to ensure that women are not silenced or ...
Funny, You Don’t Book Jewish
Lois Leveen’s newest novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, is now available. There’s a novel I first read years ago ...
Passing the Mantle of the Sixties
Last year I was chatting with a member of my congregation over bagels with our Tot Shabbat families. She mentioned ...
We’re Hiring an Editor!
MyJewishLearning.com is seeking a full-time Editor to lead its editorial team.The Editor will oversee the website’s content conceptualization, production, editing, ...
Joseph Jacobs: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Genetically
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...
Sleeping on Felix Frankfurter’s Couch
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...
Which Reminds Me of ….
There is an old joke about the itinerant maggid (preacher) who would go from town to town and give a ...
How Did I End up Doing This?
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction ...
From Grandfather to Father to Son
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, comes out this week.The story goes that, in 1923, when my father, ...
Alice Walker Denies The Color Purple’s Power
Alice Walker is one of my favorite authors ever, hands down. The Temple of My Familiar might have been the ...