Beliefs & Practices

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

My family and friends back home were baffled when I announced that, upon graduating from college, I would be moving ...

Identity is complicated.

She wore a kippah as she opened her gemara. We were a somewhat diverse group–I come from an Orthodox background, ...

One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons features a boy in a classroom, hand raised, as he says: “May I ...

“For they (the teachings) are our life source, and what lengthen our days, and so we meditate on them day ...

For all the spiritual riches of religious tradition, sometimes we forget our spiritual essence – the spark of divinity we associate with ...

A few months ago, even though I’m afraid of heights, I joined the local rock gym. No, I had never ...

Two years ago at the ISJL Education Conference, there was a wonderful program about diversity and inclusion in our Jewish ...

As we are approach the end of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, I’m ...

I recently came across a short story titled Miss Magdalena Peanuts, published in the Atlantic Monthly in September, 1879. It ...

My husband and I just returned from vacation, which included a stop in the Bahamas. Lucky for us, it rained. ...