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“For they (the teachings) are our life source, and what lengthen our days, and so we meditate on them day ...

Two years ago at the ISJL Education Conference, there was a wonderful program about diversity and inclusion in our Jewish ...

As we are approach the end of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, I’m ...

I recently came across a short story titled Miss Magdalena Peanuts, published in the Atlantic Monthly in September, 1879. It ...

The door to my apartment is pretty distinct: It just might be the only one in this city that welcomes ...

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

Like so many others, I was very saddened to hear about the passing of Leonard Nimoy last week.One of my friends, ...

My family flew to Los Angeles two weeks ago to attend the funeral of my father-in-law, z’’l. We had been ...

Parshat Shmot which we read this week contains one of the most bizarre incidents in all of the Torah. By ...

It’s been just over a week since Leelah Alcorn committed suicide. Leelah grew up not far from where I live ...