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My Daughter’s in the 4th Grade… And I’m Planning Her Bat Mitzvah
My youngest daughter will turn nine in just a few weeks, but I have already begun to actively arrange for ...
Jewish History, Southern & Jewish, Study
From the Collection: Clarksdale’s Spunky, Scrapbooking Youth
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...
Celebrate, Jewish Law, JOFA's Torch, Live, Purim, Study, Women & Feminism
Fasting for Two: Who Makes the Call?
This Thursday (March 13) many Jews will fast from sunrise to sunset in commemoration of Esther’s fast before she approached ...
Eat, Israeli Food, Jewish Recipes, Purim Food
Savory Hamantaschen
Potato and spinach hamantaschen!? Yes, they exist, and they're delicious.
Your Guide to Reading the Hebrew Bible
Learn the many chapters that make up the Tanach and find out where you can find more information about each.
Singing Her Way South: A “California Hippie” Comes to Mississippi
The summer before my Bat Mitzvah, I was sitting with my family at our home in Oakland, California. I remember ...
JOFA's Torch, Live, Women & Feminism
Not Quite Fifty Years Behind America
Ten years ago on Simchat Torah, three American friends and I walked from synagogue to synagogue in our North West London neighborhood, looking ...
Why Hanukkah Became Such a Big Deal
Though it is ostensibly about the purification of the Temple, Hanukkah really marks the political achievement of the Hasmoneans.
Keshet named one of the top American Jewish organizations
Today we were named one of the top American Jewish Organizations by Slingshot. We’re especially grateful to be honored as one ...