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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
Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China, with Scott Seligman
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in ...
The Two Millennia Story of Moroccan Jewry
Morocco is home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Diaspora. This two-millennia heritage is the result of ...
Recipes to Warm Your Soul
Join Chai Mitzvah to share your favorite recipes and the family legacies that go along with them. How have these ...
Jewish Krakow, Part Two: Krakow Jews in WWII
Join the BZD on a poignant journey with tour guide, Olga, as she unravels the harrowing tale of Kraków’s Jewish ...
The Jews of South Africa: A Community At the Tip of the Continent
The history of the Jews in South Africa officially began in 1841, when a congregation of British Jews, known as ...
When “The Hands of Esau” Replace “Love the Stranger”: The Corruption of Jewish Power
Trends in Israeli society today highlight the crucial choice that the Jewish state is faced with as the Jewish people ...
The Pharisees and Jesus: Attitudes Toward Jewish Law
We are told that the Pharisees of Jesus time were narrow-minded, nit-picking, and rigid. And that Jesus was all about ...
Vayechi: A Matter of Life and Death
The Rabbi Sacks Legacy recently unveiled the first cohort of ‘Sacks Scholars’, a group of educators, academics and leaders who ...
My Jewish Learning 2023 Online Benefit
As the year draws to a close, we invite you to be a part of a unique and inspiring online ...
Old Wine in New Bottles: Rethinking the 21st Century Rabbinate
Early in the 19th century, a modern rabbinate began to emerge in Central Europe and then the United States, spawning ...