This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...

My Memphis holiday memories remind me what matters most

What’s the first Jewish holiday we’ll be welcoming in the secular New Year of 2014 (besides Shabbat, of course)? Tu ...

Betrothed women don’t drink it.

New Jewish rituals give meaning to formerly private moments and integrate the ritual-maker into the Jewish community.

Over the last few months, I had the pleasure of working to put together a Southern Jewish Heritage tour for a ...

We find ourselves living at an interesting time on a couple of levels. Having just participated in two wonderful Seders ...

The Torah calls for Jews to work the land six years and let it rest in the seventh.

Last week, Kveller, a partner site of MyJewishLearning, published a provocative piece about one woman’s experience being Jewish in the ...

Medieval kabbalah offers various approaches to the Land of Israel.