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Summer Reading Recommendation: Esther Goes to Madison, WI

Last month I was picking through a pile of books and came across Good for the Jews, by Debra Spark, ...

How to Have an Aliyah

What you should know before you're called to the Torah.

Shabbat in the Modern World

In modern times, non-Orthodox Jews have largely abandoned Shabbat observance, despite many innovations intended to encourage it.

Israeli Sports

Moving into the international arena.

Conservative Judaism Today

Smaller but more committed, the movement is seeing vibrant, sometimes divisive debate as it navigates between tradition and change.

Jews & Globalization

Jews (not surprisingly) fall on different sides of the issue, but Jews and Israel have also been the target of anti-globalization anger.

Yaacov Agam

The artist's unique geographical creations have made him a leading pioneer of optic and kinetic art.

Israel’s Vibrant Jewish Ethnic Mix

Just because Israel is a Jewish country doesn't mean all its Jews are the same.

Kabbalah & Jewish Prayer

By adding new hymns, prayers, and meditations, medieval Jewish mystics reframed Jewish worship in their own esoteric terms.

Talmudic Curses and Insults

Before there was Shakespeare, there were some angry rabbis.

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