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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.
Articles by My Jewish Learning
Holocaust Remembrance in Germany Today
90 years after Hitler seized power, Germany has a vibrant remembrance culture aimed at raising public consciousness about the crimes ...
Poetic Midrash: A Conversation Between Hila Ratzabi and Alden Solovy
Join Ritualwell’s Hila Ratzabi in conversation with liturgist Alden Solovy in discussion of his new book, These Words: Poetic Midrash ...
Filling the Well: A Monthly Embodied Creativity Salon
In this free monthly drop-in salon, explore embodied practices, including breathing, sound meditation, and movement to quiet the inner critic, ...
Book Club: Where We Come From
OCJRC Book Club selections have been curated with an emphasis on stories of refugees from around the world. These stories ...
Jewish Diversity in Medieval Jewish Babylonia: Beyond Rabbanites and Karaites
In this session, we will learn about how biblical purity laws impacted medieval Judaism in Baghdad. What is impurity? How ...
What Girls Learn in Jewish Families
In the past, Jewish families, like many others, offered girls fewer educational opportunities than boys. But that has not been ...
Facing Mortality with Jewish Wisdom: Psychedelics
Centuries ago, Kabbalistic Jewish mystics often faced their own mortality through expanded consciousness as means of letting go of pain ...
Knowledge Under Siege
A social worker, Irena Sendler (1910-2008) belongs to the pantheon of Poland’s national heroes as a woman who saved 2500 ...
Diversity and Eloquence: Jewish Life in Wartime North Africa
Sarah Abrevaya Stein has spent a decade seeking out the voices of those who experienced fascist rule in Vichy-controlled Algeria, ...
A Black Jewish Messiah: The Travels of David Reubeni
In 1524 David Reubeni, also known as the black messiah, arrived in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a ...