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How to Be the Jewish Daughter of a Cancer Patient

Today is World Cancer Day, a day when people worldwide are focused on cancer, to encourage its prevention, detection, and ...

From Secular Jew to Talmud Scholar Part I: How I Came to Study Talmud

Readers often ask: How did a girl raised in a secular socialist family in Los Angeles come to be a ...

Fast Days for Repentance & Atonement

The Jewish calendar has a number of such days in addition to Yom Kippur.

Nedarim 75

Advanced nullification.

Parashat Mishpatim: Overcoming Victimhood

This Torah portion offers a vital ethical message for a people who have suffered centuries of oppression.

Freundel: Not Just an Orthodox Problem

Much has been written about the impact of Rabbi Barry Freundel on the Orthodox world. In a community that sees ...

Eco-Kashrut: Standards for What and How We Eat

Incorporating environmental concerns into to the Jewish dietary laws.

The Akedah, or Binding of Isaac

The Torah reading for the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

Maid of Ludomir

This 19th Century Hasidic woman served as an unofficial rabbi.

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