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Jewish History, Southern & Jewish, Study
That Time Segregationists Spied on BBYO
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was created in 1956 to fight against racial integration. An arm of Mississippi’s state government, ...
Ten Famous Americans with Greek or Turkish Jewish Heritage
These actors, designers, musicians, business leaders, and even a former member of Congress have all played a role in the American Jewish narrative.
Preparing to Relocate
Relocation from a Jewish perspective.
Legal Literature
Today, MyJewishLearning launched its first new subject area in two years: Halakhic Texts. The section — a collection of about ...
10 Days to a Better You: Day 4
With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish History, Live, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Are Nuns Too Forgiving?
I’m dying to see the new Meryl Streep movie, Doubt, about a nun with a bone to pick, but in ...
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish Texts, Mysticism, Study
Creation Mysticism: Fashioning the World From Letters
An early group of Jewish mystics conceived of the Hebrew alphabet as the building blocks of creation.
Losing Their Religion
Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...
Israel, Israel History, Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Study
Absorbing the Exiles
Israel worked to absorb massive numbers of Jewish immigrants during the 1950s.