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Articles by My Jewish Learning
Or HaLev’s Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle
Every new Hebrew month is a deep wellspring, with its own energy and wisdom. As Rosh Chodesh is traditionally a ...
Radical Acceptance, Revelation and Liberation
What would our lives look like if we could fully and truly accept ourselves? In this new 4 part series ...
Mazel: Yiddish Classics Reimagined
What happens when a cantor from a Long Island shul and a 10-time Grammy-winning vocalist extraordinaire from Brooklyn get linked ...
Life, Love, and the BRCA Mutation
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA gene mutation. The results ...
The Rise of the Overlooked in Israeli Art
Join the BZD and Israeli-American art historian, curator, writer, and educator Sagi Refael as he walks us through the overlooked ...
Poetics of Arrival or Return?: Laying the Path toward Industrial Utopia in Yiddish
By the time his pogrom poema Di kupe (The Mound) was first published in Warsaw in 1921, Peretz Markish had ...
The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: The Tale of Yalta the Shrew
Why are shrews always so vicious? How did the ancient world view the differences between the male and female body? ...
Unsolicited Advice: What Role did Yitro play in Revelation?
Pre-Shavuot lecture with the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought, established by the Zandan family Why does the father-in-law ...
A Deep Dive Into Streams of Zionist Thought and Theory with Rabbi Daniel Levine
In this online series, explore the different types of Zionistic thinking that would eventually create the framework for the diverse ...
A Deep Dive Into Streams of Zionist Thought and Theory with Rabbi Daniel Levine
In this online series, explore the different types of Zionistic thinking that would eventually create the framework for the diverse ...