Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

While women have been teaching Torah for decades, few have been writing about it — and a new book writing project aims to rectify that. (JTA) — Sefaria, the app that contains a digital collection of ...

(RNS) — The book gives daily reflection exercises, drawing on AA's famous 12-step method and portions of Jewish Scripture. (RNS) — At one of the first Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Boruch Binyamin ...

Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the ...

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...

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For Amy Guenther, the shift to Torah observance was swift and unexpected. About a decade ago, one of her friends started creating Facebook posts suggesting that Christians should be keeping the laws ...

Check out this curated list of podcasts by J. senior editor Natalie Weinstein that focus on Israel, Torah and Jewish ...