The holiday season is sort of a strange time for me. Like many American Jews, I grew up celebrating both ...

Different ways to welcome and part from someone on the Jewish Sabbath — in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and more.

How do you send your child to Hebrew school when you hated it?

A look back at 2017 as told in the stories of racially and ethnically diverse Jews

This prayer of thanksgiving is recited on festive Jewish holidays.

How should Jews live under foreign rule? These biblical books offer different answers to a 2,000-year-old question.

Here at MJL headquarters we spend a lot of time trying to make our articles nice loking. We got a ...

Consulting with my adult daughter about what she’s reading now...

In her last posts, Jennifer Traigreorganized her library and looked at the changes from her past year. She has been ...

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard “White Christmas.”Sure, I know that it was written by Irving Berlin, ...