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Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...

A man is unable to marry because the Israeli Rabbinate decides that he is actually an adoptee, although there is ...

It’s the time of year when the Jewish calendar turns to love–Tu B’Av (which falls on August 5th this year). ...

The rabbis told this story: In a certain place there was a lizard which used to injure people. They came ...

In her last blogs, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about some of her favorite books.In the months preceding its publication, Jean ...

There are so many stories in the Bible that I (among many people) have a hard time believing as truth.A ...

In a few hours we begin mourning the destruction of the Temple. Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day of ...

Coming up on August 5th is Tu B’Av, (the 15th of Av), a Jewish day for matchmaking and love. According ...

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...

Growing up, I didn’t really know what Tisha B’av (It was pronounced Tish Above) was. I did get the sense ...

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.”Here in the U.S., ...

America in the 20th century saw an explosion of technology that was unprecedented. People, whether they were comfortable with it ...

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an ...

Rabbi Reuven Hammer sees much present relevance to what Jeremiah had to say about the destruction of the first Temple ...

David Berman, poet and former lead singer of the Silver Jews, has always been four parts poet to one part ...