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Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

We pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded and Hashem's protection for the soldiers and citizens of Israel. Disrespecting the marital covenant will lead to disrespecting the covenant between ...

We restart our annual Torah cycle with the readings of Breishit and Noach, and I always feel the need to ask: Why are we reading this? I feel little connection to these Torah readings. Emotionally ...

Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish ...

The Torah reading on the first two days of Sukkot (Leviticus 22:26-23:44) outlines the festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year. Examining them carefully, however, we see that ...

Gaining the wisdom of Torah every week is an unusual way to honor the memory of the worst day in Israeli history. But by ...

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Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

Simchat Torah marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the start of a new one. The highlight is the hakafot, during which participants march and dance around a Torah ...

Simchat Torah marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the start of a new one. The highlight is the hakafot, during which participants march and dance around a Torah ...