How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 3

Part 3 in this series features Shelly Weiss, the queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, as ...

How to Hate the Gays

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...

Jewish Year in Review: 2006

Four stories that mattered--and three that might have.

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Directory of Jewish Genetic Diseases

A guide to the diseases included in most Jewish genetic screening.

Do We Need Lent in Judaism?

There are two funny images I like to circulate this time every year as we approach the Passover holiday. The ...

The History of Tzimmes

Everything you need to know about this underrated Rosh Hashanah classic.

The Conventions of Biblical Poetry

A brief introduction to the devices and characteristics of this biblical genre.

Expulsion and Readmission

Medieval European Jewry repeatedly faced banishment for both economic and religious reasons.

The Heavenly Jerusalem

An idealized Jerusalem arose out of the ashes of the Temple's destruction and the city's ruins.

36 Gorgeous Ketubahs

There are endless ways to decorate the traditional Jewish marriage contract.

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