Today’s post comes from Linnea Hurst, the ISJL’s Community Engagement Department intern this summer. I am from Portland, Oregon, and ...

Themes and Theology of Torah Study. Jewish Torah Study. Jewish Learning.

American-Jewish may sound natural, but the hyphen hides deep contradictions.

From biblical times to the present.

Focusing on the year that's ending.

How do we mourn without a body?

Deathbed confession.

The celebration of Israeli independence is marked each year on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar.

The megillah reading, mishloach manot and more

If homosexuality is not chosen, then there is precedent in Jewish law for condoning it.