Meet the Israeli author making Jewish texts accessible for children
The first book I received of Dina’s series of three was her Scroll of Ruth, most appropriate since Shavuot was only a week away.
Judaism
The beauty and frustration of Shavuot at the Western Wall
'The Sacrificial Service': Leviticus has been mistranslated for centuries - review
Parashat Beha'alotcha: The courage to see beyond
Parashat Yitro: Before the revelation at Sinai
Whenever people are convinced that they are acting in the name of higher goals – especially when they believe they are serving God – moral boundaries become fragile.
America’s Black-Jewish story gets an update on new PBS series featuring Henry Louis Gates
The series explores key moments in the histories of Black and Jewish Americans, and how those moments ran parallel and crossed paths over the past five centuries.
Light unto the nations: Rivkah Lambert Adler and teaching Torah outward
The concept of illuminating the nations of the world was always envisioned as one of prophetic destiny rather than real obligation. Author Rivkah Lambert Adler confronts this very notion.
Dnipro chief rabbi: Joy in being Jewish restored post-Soviet Dnipro Jewry
When Kaminetsky arrived in the Closed City in 1990, the years of pogroms, Nazi conquest, and Soviet oppression had reduced almost fifty synagogues to one small house of worship.
After October 7, this haredi woman refuses to stand apart from Israeli society
Born into the heart of haredi Jerusalem, Sari Kroizer has built a religious and Israeli identity that refuses to stand apart.
What honoring our parents teaches us about faith, logic, and Judaism
The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.
