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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

Death Over Dinner: Jewish Edition: Let’s Talk about Death

Talking about death not only better prepares us to approach life’s most challenging moments, but also helps us articulate and ...

Forty Years After Sophie’s Choice: Hollywood and the Holocaust

In 1982 William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, premiered as a movie, one of the first popular films connected to the ...

Creating Eternal Moments

“By the time the holidays are over, maybe you’ve had a minute or five minutes or 30 seconds of something ...

Jacob Schiff: A Most Honorable Jew

To this day, Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) is noted for being the most generous benefactor of Jewish causes in the history ...

Censoring the Holocaust: How Books Shape Our View of a Painful Past

In this discussion, Dr. Edna Friedberg, JTS fellow and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum looks back at ...

Jewish Intermarriage: A History

Moses was not the only one who married someone who was not Jewish. Learn about the history of this practice ...

Princess, Poetess, Priestess, Ornament of Heaven: Enheduanna, the Women of Mesopotamia & Our Biblical Narrative with Sharon Keller

Most ancient texts come to us without authorship or attribution, yet the first named author in history was a woman: ...