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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
“I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli
Join the BZD and New-York Historical Society to examine how Jewish immigrants, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, imported and ...
Jewish Amsterdam: A Small Community with a Giant History
Join the BZD and tour guide Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira, one of the few original Portuguese Jews left in Amsterdam. On ...
From Catastrophe to Hope: The Book of Joel
The account of Joel’s words is short but it packs a wallop: it’s vivid and colorful, even scary. While some ...
A Yemenite Jerusalem Power Couple: The Story of Rabbi and Rabbanit Kapach
A link to the film, Two Legacies, will be available three days before the program for participants to watch at ...
Discovering Kabbalah and the Zohar
Kabbalah was a mainstream philosophy of Judaism for 400 years and the Zohar has been a core to understanding the ...
Discovering Kabbalah and the Zohar
Kabbalah was a mainstream philosophy of Judaism for 400 years and the Zohar has been a core to understanding the ...
Longing: Poems of a Life Book Launch
Join CCAR Press to celebrate the release of “Longing: Poems of a Life” by the acclaimed poet, playwright, educator, and ...
Mussar and Kabbalah
Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that help you become aware of the habit patterns that stop ...
Space: Understanding the Tree of Life
Space: A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite ...
Poetry and Kabbalah
Allen Afterman, in his opening line of Kabbalah and Consciousness calls Kabbalah the “holographic, poetic universe of Judaism.” What poetry ...