2013

Whenever I get ready to go on a long research trip, I put together a detailed itinerary, listing each library, ...

When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

To have fully egalitarian practices must we have the same standards for both boys and girls?

A week filled with senseless public events is a good week to look for meaning.Rabbi Rachel Barenblat found meaning in ...

In 2011, I was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Thanks to this honor, I was invited ...

Rebecca Leibowitz works at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.It is my first summer at camp. I am 5 inches taller, ...

According to Jewish Law it is the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer ...

[Editor’s Note: This post is not our typical “Southern & Jewish” fare; one of our contributors, Rabbi Marshal Klaven, wanted ...

As a native New Yorker and a die-hard Yankees fan, the year I lived in Boston was not always an ...