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Jimmy Carter Finally Makes A Good Point

In second grade everyone in my class was given a US President to study. Mine was Jimmy Carter, and long ...

How the Yiddish translation of the Torah, Megillot and Haftarot became associated with women.

Defying the general trend toward a merger, the three branches of the JCC of Greater Philadelphia will each be going ...

David Plotz is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council.There are the writers who succeed by arguing evolution exists ...

I saw this yesterday and considered blogging about it. But now the story has become too good not to talk ...

Thereâ€™s a famous Jewish text called the Kuzari, written by Judah HaLevi. In it, the king of the Khazars has ...

Much attention has been given to the use of “gray water,” but there are many different forms of gray water, ...

How Karaite law dictated who was considered "marriageable."

How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

I tend to think of Richard Dawkins as slightly deranged, but I respect his right to have an opinion. I ...

All the words have been given by a single Shepherd … so you build many chambers in your heart and ...

Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism:* Moses smashed the original Ten ...