Jewish Texts

The Pedagogy of Nemo: What a Winter Storm Can Teach Us About Shabbat

Well, that was an unexpected weekend! For those of you who do not live in the Northeast, we just got ...

Are you on the freedom bandwagon yet? Celebrations of the concept of freedom seem to be permeating the cultural-political zeitgeist ...

Kabbalah is an attempt to understand the brokenness of the universe.The other night, my chevruta (Study partner) and I were ...

The Daf Yomi (Hebrew for “page a day”), is a program for learning Talmud. Participants study one page a day, ...

I’m skeptical of Hanukkah. Maybe it’s the rampant commercialism that defines the entire month of December. Maybe it’s the way ...

By Education Fellow Reva FrankelI grew up in a Modern Orthodox community, so when I came to work at the ...

It’s not over until… When the Simpsons go to see Carmen at the Springfield Opera House Homer asked Bart when ...

In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...

This past Sunday was claimed by many churches around the country ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’. It’s the day that the pastors ...

As humans and Jews we have a responsibility to take care of the earth.

There is much discussion currently about imposing limits on blasphemy. It seems clear that the vast majority of those in ...

One of the things that sometimes is embarrassing and/or sometimes frustrating, is when someone comes up to me and says: ...