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.


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Articles by My Jewish Learning

Purim HerTorah: Women and Power

Explore the Purim megillah through a lens of “Women* + Power” – how we navigate power, how women’s power is ...

Jewish Harlem: Synagogues & Stories of a Once Thriving Community

Join New York Adventure Club as we uncover the New York neighborhood of Harlem, with a focus on the stories ...

JTA Conversations: A Year of War in Ukraine

Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, throwing the region and the world ...

Tour of Jewish Uzbekistan

Join the BZD and tour guide Evgenia Kempinski for a virtual tour of the Bukharian Jews. Nicknamed the “people with ...

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

In her new book, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, Dahlia Lithwick, one of the ...

Jewish History through Musical Storytelling

From exploring the works of great composers like George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein to telling the tales of the Jews ...

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

A Hungarian Jewish immigrant with only a high school education, Anna Marie Rosenberg was FDR’s special envoy to Europe in ...

Bad Theology: Terrible Explanations of Why The Righteous Suffer

Why do bad things happen to good people? We don’t know. But we do know a bad explanation when we ...

Identity Politics and Jewish Peoplehood

What does it mean to truly belong in a Jewish community? How does the current discourse around identity politics challenge ...

Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders debated how to preserve and produce Jewish culture, fearful that ...

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