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Celebrate, Mourn, Rabbis Without Borders
Baruch Dayan Emet
Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...
Interfaith, Live, Members of the Scribe
“Are You Jewish?”
Yes. But it’s complicated.My mother is Jewish, which, as my grandmother used to tell me, means that the Nazis would ...
Top 5 American Jewish Women Most People Have Never Heard Of
One of the biggest pleasures in writing American Jewish women’s history is discovering the immensely talented, hardworking, committed women whose ...
Celebrate, JOFA's Torch, Passover, Seder, Sukkot, Women & Feminism
All Your Males…
I hate Jewish holidays.I got married soon after becoming Orthodox, and I was excited to celebrate the Jewish holidays fully ...
Celebrate, Jewish Texts, JOFA's Torch, Live, Study, Women & Feminism
An Old Shul Still Paving the Way
It is funny to celebrate the 120th anniversary of our synagogue when Judaism tells us that 120 years should mark ...
And Yanklowitz…
Yesterday I posted Rabbi Avi Shafran’s response to Shmuly Yanklowitz’s response to Rabbi Shafran’s op-ed response to Yanklowitz’s organization’s response ...
Beliefs & Practices, Health & Wellness, Jewish Genetics, Live, Study
Jewish Views on Stem Cell Research
The stem cells most likely to be of scientific value come from discarded embryos. Is it ethical to use these?
Jewish Texts, Jewish Thought, Sages & Scholars, Study, Talmud
Maimonides on Seder Zeraim
The sequence of the tractates in the Order