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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
Reorienting Christian Understandings of Judaism: Insights from Biblical Scholarship
Biblical scholarship involves seeking understanding of venerable documents by exploring their literary, socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to understand ...
Literary Form and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible
The Art of Biblical Narrative is a 1981 book by Robert Alter in which he outlines a literary approach to ...
Tour Jewish Rome on Zoom With Native Italian Tour Guides
This presentation, spanning 2,200 years of a Jewish presence in Rome, will cover the main events that have characterized the ...
Music and the Holocaust
Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. For many victims of the Holocaust, ...
Beyond the Ashkenorm
In many Jewish circles, conversations focus mostly, if not entirely, on Ashkenazic ideas and customs, leaving out the rich culture ...
The Circle of Censorship and Book Burning in East European Jewry
Join David Fishman, professor of Jewish history at JTS, as he discusses the circle of censorship and book burning in ...
Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France
Nick Underwood explores how left-wing Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Paris in the 1920s ...
We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel
Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long ...
Jewish Ethical Wills: How Will You Be Remembered?
Everyone has a story, and how we preserve our stories can ensure that they inspire future generations. This writing workshop ...
Weekly Seminars with Top Israeli Artists and Curators: Session 2
Fortunately, the digital age has made it possible to visit some of Israel’s most famous exhibitions from the comfort of ...