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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.


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Articles by My Jewish Learning

Sarah Zaides Rosen on “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter”

In this talk, historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Assistant Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of ...

Egypt, the Exodus, and the Passover Story with Sharon Keller

We all know the story of the Exodus – we hear it each year in the Torah reading, we discuss ...

Free Intro to Time: The Present Moment

Do you understand time? It is not the seconds and minutes ticking by, or the days, weeks and years we ...

Jews of Siberia: A Treasure Box of Unique Jewish Stories

Join the BZD and tour guide Evgenia Kempinski on a Virtual Tour of the Jews of Siberia. Siberia is a ...

Free Intro to Soul: Unseen Reality

The study of Kabbalah enables us to discover what is hidden from our perception in plain sight. In this introduction ...

Free Intro to Space: Understanding the Tree of Life

Learn about how Jewish mysticism maps and conceptualizes energy in this free introduction from Kabbalah Experience.

Free Intro to Time: The Present Moment

Do you understand time? It is not the seconds and minutes ticking by, or the days, weeks and years we ...

Free Intro to Time: The Present Moment

Do you understand time? It is not the seconds and minutes ticking by, or the days, weeks and years we ...

This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History

This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History is a new book featuring a conversation, often contentious, between Michael ...

Are Crackers, Tortillas, Pretzels and Other Flat Foods Made of Wheat Kosher for Passover?

Since they don’t appear to have risen, perhaps they fall into the same category as matzah?

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