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Interfaith families bringing new realities to Jewish communal life

I’m a big fan of Julie Weiner’s blog at The Jewish Week.  It’s one of those blogs that I read ...

Filling the Missing Half of the Sacred Bookshelf

For years I studied and taught Torah, learning and teaching in many settings, including several batei midrash, teacher training programs, ...

The Media, Guns, and Turbans

It has been a week since the terrible shooting in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Life has continued and new ...

The Dangers of Nice

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...

How Do You Want to Spend the Last Days of Your Life?

This isn’t a fun question, but it’s an important one: What kind of death do you want? If you found ...

Bava Batra 30

More dubious property claims.

Natchez, Mississippi: The Place to Be for Jewish History Lovers This Fall

For me, it’s the river that won my heart.In the summer of 2007, I was traveling in a hot van ...

The World’s Most Contested Religious Site

“The world’s most contested religious site.”So says the New York Times about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, claimed as a ...

Yom Kippur War

A surprise attack on a holy day in 1973.

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