Around Thanksgiving, my baby girl had the first continuous cough we had ever experienced (thanks, daycare!) and, just to be ...

The common denominator.

I didn’t mind the mechitza  at first. The wall—more frequently a short partition—separating men and women in ritual spaces was ...

A survey of key Jewish sources and discussions on the Festival of Lights.

Works of pleasure.

Speech is a defining characteristic of human beings, part of our self-definition as individuals and members of groups. Judaism sees speech as both a fundamental theological and ethical category.

I recently returned from an amazing trip to Senegal.  I was there to visit my step-daughter who is serving in ...

A history of a nation through the small screen.

As I prepare for Yom Kippur, I have been giving some thought to all of my and our collective sins. ...

Last week, Kveller, a partner site of MyJewishLearning, published a provocative piece about one woman’s experience being Jewish in the ...