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It was 10 p.m. on a Thursday night at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, and I was finally learning ...

I haven’t looked forward to a book’s release so much since the final installment of Harry Potter. Here is a ...

One of my favorite things about being a full-time professional Jew is that you, our clientele, kind of view Judaism ...

There’s this weird trend going on at my shul recently. Hadar has always been big on people bringing in new ...

“Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli. Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzarelli.”Adam Sandler is right. Jon ...

“The day of death is better than the day of birth,” Rabbi Levi explained. “This can be compared to two ...

To deny people’s full humanity is to remove them from divinity, and if we lessen the divine image of anyone, ...

As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...

How was everyone’s fast? Mine was yummy. Thanks for asking (Okay, I fasted. I promise).We’ve had a good week here ...

In her last blogs, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about some of her favorite books.In the months preceding its publication, Jean ...