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-The last surviving person to have attended the historical afternoon session when Ben Gurion read the scroll establishing the Jewish ...

MyJewishLearning.com is seeking an Associate Editor for its New York, NY office.Qualified candidates should have at least 2 years of ...

-In an earlier day, the Flag of Morocco had the 6-pointed Star of David, “known in Arabic as Khatam Suleyman ...

Last night I was watching the Chicago Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals on ESPN. Around the top of ...

-Debra Ruth Kolodny crafts “A new Ceremony of Simchat Bat,� explaining the rationale behind the process. (Ritualwell)-Rabbi Shlomi Aviner, one ...

Pirkei Avot 1:7 is a short mishnah with further advice about who to (and in this case, who not to) ...

At the end of March, I blogged a report I’d seen from Yeshiva World News about a man posing as ...

As some of you might have noticed from earlier blog posts, the synagogue I now attend is a bit old-fashioned. ...

It seems like everyone is taking advantage of new outlets online. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum of Israel, has ...

-Turkey is readying efforts to get Israel-Syria talks underway. (Haaretz)-Looking at the substantial domestic opposition to a deal with Syria ...

In this installment of From the Academy Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair of Folklore at the Hebrew ...

Pirkei Avot 1:6 continues the conversation about social ethics, which began in Mishnah 4. 1:6 – Joshua ben Perachyah and ...

-The distinction between the Holocaust’s meanings and its facts “highlights a central issue in the broader debate about what it ...

Do you use a special toothbrush and toothpaste to brush your teeth on Shabbat? If not, it appears that you’re ...

The fourth and fifth mishnayot of Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 begin a series of teachings about ethical socializing — and ...