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From the frontpiece of Shulhan Arukh, the Code of Jewish Law. (Wikipedia)
March 21, 2018, 1:55 pm
The Rabbinate won’t let me take its exams
By not letting us female students of Shabbat, kashrut, and more establish our expertise, the rabbis quash the Torah
By Chamutal Shoval
A view of Yeshiva University’s Zysman Hall (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
March 18, 2018, 2:09 pm
Yeshiva University’s policies about women
To Deborah Klapper: A yeshiva is no place for mixed-gender religious leadership, pluralism, or any contemporary value
By Avrohom Gordimer
Pictured: 'Jakob and Esau' by Dutch painter Matthias Stom. In 'From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey,' editor Diana Lipton offers commentary about the Bible and food, such as the lentil soup traded by one twin for his brother's birthright (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
March 9, 2018, 2:01 pm
What the Torah talks about when it talks about food
In 'From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey,' Diana Lipton compiles an extensive commentary on the themes of sustenance in the Bible
By Jessica Steinberg
US Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 22, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ariel Schalit)
January 24, 2018, 3:15 pm
How VP Mike Pence reinvents leadership
Those who represent unshakable morality have recast Donald Trump, and everyone should be shocked by that
By Yoseif Bloch
Illustrative: A baby after the brit milah ceremony (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 18, 2018, 3:09 pm
Circumcision: Why risk your child’s welfare?
Monuments of stone may disappear; acts of commitment to God, ethics, or Jewish identity resound forever
By Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Moses on Mount Sinai, painted circa 1895-1900, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Wikimedia Commons)
January 3, 2018, 3:18 pm
It is time to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism
We should all be extremely saddened by the impending mass disappearance of the bulk of American Jewry
By Avrohom Gordimer
Illustrative: American Jewish day school students studying outside. (Courtesy of Hillel Day School/JTA)
January 3, 2018, 12:49 pm
At 16, I could barely write my name in Hebrew
Day schools graduate compassionate, spiritual kids, who use good judgment, advocate for justice… and get into good colleges
By Erica Brown
Illustrative. (iStock)
January 1, 2018, 3:24 pm
Eat up!
Imagine if an app got us to pay attention to all the gory details about food production... Oh wait, Judaism can do that
By Diana Lipton
Rage room at Battle Sport, 2016. (YouTube)
December 29, 2017, 4:27 pm
‘Rage Rooms’ are, well, all the rage
It turns out that you're not doing anyone any favors when you encourage 'getting your aggression out'
By Ari Shishler
December 1, 2017, 3:06 pm
The Torah is no way to excuse abuse
A forthright look at how Jacob treated women and the Jewish law that makes it clear he did wrong
By Shammai Engelmayer
The USS Gerald R. Ford. (Public domain)
November 11, 2017, 10:04 pm
To honor WWII vet, seafaring Torah scroll to sail on new US Navy supercarrier
Ahead of Veterans Day, a gift helps the 30-40 Jewish service members aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford worship on the high seas
By Rich Tenorio
Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)
November 3, 2017, 3:10 pm
How Judaism broke down the family
The biblical Binding of Isaac is a painful episode in the drama of human separation and individuation
By Jonathan Sacks
October 11, 2017, 5:50 pm
Out of the clouds, into hope
If we betray the Torah's commitment to the poor, the stranger, social justice, and integrity, we shatter the Torah itself
By Ari Afilalo
October 11, 2017, 3:14 pm
The historical power of Catalonia’s Jews
Spain was never part of that unique blend: Sefardic tradition, Tosafist methodology, and Provencal talmudic influence
By Aryeh Leibowitz
October 11, 2017, 10:07 am
The unyielding Sefer Torah
On Simchat Torah, we dance with the same scrolls we have honored for millennia -- and which are completely outdated
By Nathan Lopes Cardozo
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