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American Jewish Women as Cantors

How Jewish women worked their way into the field of synagogue music.

Getting Our B’nei Mitzvah to Understand (and Love) Torah Study

Helping 13-year-olds understand a 3,000-year-old text is challenging, to say the least.After all, trying to glean lessons from the Torah ...

Living Up to Our Names

God names Bezalel, giving him inspiration to lead.

Working With Converts

Excerpts from the Reform Movement's Guidelines for Working with Prospective Converts

Who Owns Our Words?

For artists and writers, their creativity is their livelihood. The ideas that sprout from their heads are what put bread ...

Glatt Kosher

The name for this particular practice has come to stand for more stringent kashrut standards in general.

From Estrangement to Reconciliation

The High Holidays are but milestones on the journey toward renewal of our relationship with God.

Born Jewish or Not, You Matter

The way I look — my golden complexion and the abundance of ringlet curls on my head — combined with the difference in my upbringing have always challenged my place in society and even in the Jewish community.

Searching for Osama

On Monday, Lavie Tidhar wrote about Jewish vampires and Hebrew punks. His new novel, An Occupation of Angels, is now available. ...

God in Jewish Prayer

The Talmudic rabbis crafted a formula that moves from addressing God to speaking about God. What did they mean to convey through this dual formula?

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