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Articles by My Jewish Learning
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WWII America
Join author Michael Benson, in conversation with AJU’s Samuel Rosenbaum, to learn the untold saga of Jewish mobsters combating the ...
A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish
It is a curious fact that among the first Yiddish books ever printed was a translation of the New Testament, ...
Refa Na: Grief, Trauma and Healing
The journey of life inevitably brings each of us face-to-face with loss, grief and suffering. The experience of pain is ...
A Rabbi Returns to the Vatican
New virtual tour of Jewish perspectives in the Raphael Rooms Join an online trip to the world centre of Catholicism ...
Artist Spotlight Series: Heritage, Tech, and Tradition
Session #3 – Tuesday December 19, 2023 Karny Rivlin Vorona – “”LeDor VaDor: Illumination as Interpretation”” After nine years of ...
Vayigash: The Crescendo of the Joseph Story
The Rabbi Sacks Legacy recently unveiled the first cohort of ‘Sacks Scholars’, a group of educators, academics and leaders who ...
What Makes Tanakh Unique?
Some claim that Tanakh, with its myths, tales and origin stories, is simply another product of Ancient Near East culture. ...
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
Author Dina Porat and AJU’s Michael Berenbaum discuss Porat’s new book, Nakam (Hebrew for “vengeance”) which tells the story of ...
A Leap of Faith: Isaac Caro’s “Tefillin Case” and the Quest for Sephardic Material Culture
While the legacy of Sepharad looms large in the imagination of contemporary Jews, academics, and cultural institutions, the physical remnants ...
Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic as a Jewish Language
Arabic has been the main language of communication for Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa for over ...