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Mary Antin
This best-selling author celebrated the immigrant experience and the boundless opportunity of America.
Maimonides’ Eight Levels: A Contemporary Reading
Jeff Spitzer mines Maimonides' 8 levels of Tzedakah for guidance on contemporary issues in tzedakah.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Celebrate, Live
In This Place and Time–New Traditional Bat Mitzvah
The women's prayer service is becoming the choice venue for a bat mitzvah in Orthodox synagogues that value egalitarianism and learning.
Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Modern Israel, Zionism
Clash of Nationalisms
Arabs in Zionist thought.
The Future of American Orthodoxy
An examination of the challenges facing Orthodox Judaism in America
Denominations, Jewish History, Live, Study
Orthodox Judaism Today
With rising numbers and increasingly stringent observance, Orthodoxy thrives even as it faces challenges.
Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Study
Brandeis University and the Jews
Brandeis rose quickly to academic excellence, but the nature of its Jewish character remains ambiguous.
Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Study, Women & Feminism
Regina Jonas
How one of the first female rabbis was almost forgotten.
Conversion, Jewish&, Live, Sephardic Jews, Weddings & Marriage
Just Your Typical Egyptian Mexican American Jew
It is interesting to grow up in an old world family with new world ideas. My childhood dinners were created ...
Israel, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Jon Stewart Can’t Talk About Israel, But We Must
Jon Stewart, in his July 21 episode of The Daily Show, viscerally demonstrated what many of us, I am sure, ...