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Shavuot History: Talmudic Development
How the Rabbis brought Sinai and the Torah to the center of what had been a harvest celebration.
This Week in Noshing
I feel like I have barely left my apartment building for the past several weeks. Every week has been another ...
How to Choose a Siddur, or Jewish Prayer Book
It helps to know what lies behind the muted bindings and the denominational labels of today's wide array of possibilities.
God’s Gender: A Traditionalist View
If we reject male God language, we lose a powerful metaphor: the husband-wife relationship between God and the Jews.
Gender & Sexuality, JOFA's Torch, Live
Partners in Prayer: A Recipe for Success
A new partnership minyan was recently formed in Hampstead in North-West London. Here, two of the founders, Beverly Paris and ...
God, Holocaust, Jewish History, Jewish Law, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape
Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...
Celebrate, Denominations, Jewish Texts, JOFA's Torch, Live, Rosh Hashanah, Study, Talmud, Weddings & Marriage, Women & Feminism
How I Ended Up Delivering the Sermon on Rosh Hashanah
Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...
Ancient/Medieval Jewish History, Jewish History, Study
Inquisition in Spain
How Jews went from protected minority to persona non grata in just a few years.