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Writers Should Get Up Early

As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I’ve been taking ...

A New Shema Every Time You Say It

Today’s Jewniverse is about a translation of the Shema prayer — only, it’s not the prayer as you’ve ever heard ...

Wise Fridays: How Strong is Your Love?

“When our love was strong, we could have made our bed on the blade of a sword. Now that our ...

Wise Fridays: Bread and Torah

“Where there is no food there is no Torah; and where there is no Torah there is no food.” — ...

How To Pray Jewishly

I became Orthodox under the guidance of someone who advised me to run from it. Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel, the ...

Wise Fridays: How Goodly Are Your Tents

“How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel. Like brooks are they turned, like gardens by ...

When Adam Met Eve

The Bible doesn’t do the best job of letting the main characters tell their side of the story. Take Moses ...

Wise Fridays: Playing Favorites

“A man should never single out one of his children for favored treatment, for because of two extra coins’ worth ...

The Bible in the News

A new book “relies on an imaginative reading of the Bible supplemented by legends and lore promulgated by Jews, Christians, ...

AJWS Dvar Tzedek Fellowship

Our good friends at AJWS are looking for a few more good women and men to write their social justice ...