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Beliefs & Practices, Israel, Study
What About the Land?
Early rabbinic literature does not devote much attention to the uniqueness of the Land of Israel.
Appetizers, Eat, Food Videos, Israeli Food, Jewish Recipes
How to Make Bourekas
There's not much better than golden, flaky spinach and cheese bourekas.
Eat, Holiday Food, Jewish Recipes, Shavuot Food, Sukkot/Simchat Torah Food, Yom Kippur: Breaking the Fast
Gluten-Free Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
I try to eat a pretty healthy and mostly unprocessed gluten-free diet, but I do love mac and cheese. This is ...
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study, Talmud
The Mishnah as a Response to Catastrophe
The Oral Torah reflects an attempt to create an eternal Judaism, unaffected by the setbacks that had afflicted the Jewish people in the preceding two centuries.
Celebrate, JOFA's Torch, Women & Feminism
Empowering Bat Mitzvah Girls
A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...
Why Must This Passover Seder Be Like All Others?
Passover 5780 is going to be one we all remember for a long time. The world is reeling from the ...
Gender & Sexuality, Jewish History, Keshet, Live, Study
The Maid of Ludomir
A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...
Jewish Culture, Jewish Literature, Live, Modern Israeli Literature
The Pioneers of Modern Hebrew Literature
Writing Hebrew literature in the 19th century was no simple matter, and those who did were the elite of the elite.
Our November-December Dilemma
As the weather turns colder, American Jews are surrounded by conflicting reminders that we are both part of and separate from American society as a whole.