My Jewish Learning
My Jewish Learning is the leading independent website and digital community for all things Jewish, from Jewish history to text to ritual to prayer to food and much more. We offer a robust website with thousands of articles answering nearly every possible question about Judaism and Jewish life, a daily newsletter guiding subscribers through interesting facts and must-read news about Jewish life and practice, a daily Talmud essay called "A Daily Dose of Talmud," a weekly Shabbat newsletter, dozens of special emails featuring insights into major Jewish topics, and a robust online community through our social media channels. Articles written with the My Jewish Learning byline are authored and edited by our staff. My Jewish Learning's staff includes leading Jewish scholars and journalists. Rachel Scheinerman, who holds a doctorate in Ancient Judaism from Yale University, is My Jewish Learning's Editor, and Ben Harris, a longtime, award-winning journalist covering Jewish topics, is Managing Editor.
Articles by My Jewish Learning
Create the Ultimate Vegan Shabbat Dinner
Join us to learn to cook a delicious vegan Shabbat dinner, with food writer and cooking instructor Sonya Sanford. In ...
Tour of Jewish Cuba
Join My Jewish Learning and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for a virtual tour of Jewish Cuba. Currently, there are five ...
A Taste of Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic: Proverbs, Folklore, Expressions
Dr. Assaf Bar Moshe joins My Jewish Learning to explore Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic, the language spoken by Iraq’s millennia-old Jewish community. ...
The Healing Power of Storytelling
Stories have the power to entertain, inform, enlighten, and motivate. They also have the power to heal, and this will ...
Jewish Ghost Stories
Fantasy is one of the most popular genres on earth. From “Harry Potter” to “Lord of the Rings” to “Game ...
Free Intro to Space: the Tree of Life
A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite flow ...
The Jews of Belarus: From the Pale of Settlement to the USSR and Beyond
Belarus’ Jewish story is rich, vital, traumatic, fascinating and barely spoken of. The territory was ruled at different times by ...
Family History Today: The Krakovsky Documents
Alex Krakovsky, a Ukrainian Jew, has unearthed & digitized elusive Jewish census records from Ukrainian archives. Join Gary Pokrassa & ...
Kaddish Circle
To experience loss is to be human. Please join Rabbi Caryn Aviv for Kaddish circle where you can find community ...
A Tribute to Israeli Author Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev, one of the great columnists and authors of modern Israeli literature died in the spring of 2023. In ...