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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
Growing up Jewish in Uganda
The Abayudaya community was founded by a tribal chief who converted himself and many of his followers to Judaism in ...
Ribhi Kamal: The Predicament of an Arab Hebraist
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies invites you to join us for the next Schusterman Seminar, “Ribhi Kamal: The Predicament ...
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
Kick off Women’s History Month with a riveting conversation about amplifying Jewish female voices! In Judaism, women’s voices have not ...
Agreeable Jews, Dead Jews, and the Challenge of Diversity
Is there any connection between recent antisemitic attacks and recent controversies about public Holocaust education? Actually, yes, and it’s built ...
The Vilna Troupe, God of Vengeance, and Yiddish Performance Around the World
Professor Debra Caplan and performer Caraid O’Brien discuss where Yiddish theater was performed throughout the world during its heyday in ...
Five Shifts in Ukrainian Jewish Relations
The war radically changed Ukrainians as a people. Ukrainians reimagined themselves as Cossacks, not as unruly mercenaries at the boundaries ...
Jewish Diversity in Medieval Jewish Babylonia: Beyond Rabbanites and Karaites
In this second of three sessions (February 22nd), discover the history of the Jewish groups who opposed Rabbinic Judaism. Why ...
Pioneers: Remembering the First Jews in America
Jews emigrated to North America in the earliest days of the colonial era, long before American independence and before the ...
How To Run A Passover Seder with Rahel Musleah
Join Rahel Musleah and My Jewish Learning to learn about the central ritual of Passover: the seder (order) according to ...