Soon after learning my late grandmother’s family lived in Nachlaot, I accepted an invitation for Shabbat dinner from sweet friends, Mottle ...

  When I tell my friends who are not Orthodox that I’m out of the closet and attending a Modern ...

When I thought about my future as a kid, the image of a wedding would come into focus. A beautiful ...

In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, we bring you a meditation on the connection between tzara’at, a ...

When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...

The post previously appeared on the MyJewishLearning/Jewish Book Council blog.Earlier this week, Wayne Hoffman wrote about a funny thing, the meaning behind ...

Tahara is sometimes done with little information except names– that of the meyt and those of our fellow team members. ...

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...

In the days since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, you have likely been inundated with requests to give money and/or ...

This Orthodox spiritual revivalist movement emerged in 18th-century Eastern Europe.