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Rabbi Zelig Golden, founding director of Wilderness Torah, clutches the organization‘s new Torah scroll, posing with the Wilderness Torah staff. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inNews

Finally, a Torah for Wilderness Torah, thanks to dying synagogue

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 5, 2018September 5, 2018
(Illustration/JTA-Charles Dunst; Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inHigh Holidays

Join the High Holidays prep renaissance. All you need is the internet.

Wendie Bernstein LashLex RofebergEstee Solomon Gray by Wendie Bernstein Lash, Rabbi Lex Rofeberg and Estee Solomon Gray September 4, 2018September 4, 2018
At The Well brings circles of women together around Rosh Hodesh, the start of the new Jewish month, to connect with each other and tradition. (Photo/Sophie Pechner)
Posted inReligion

Monthly gatherings connect women with sacred cycles, and each other

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz September 4, 2018September 4, 2018
Posted inTorah

Can Jewish history be reduced to a single line?

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon August 30, 2018August 30, 2018
Illustration from Phillip Medhurst Collection depicting Joshua fighting Amalek
Posted inColumns

Amalek: remembering evil in order to forget

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan August 23, 2018
A bus ad in Toronto, 2009 (Photo/Flickr-Atheist Bus Canada CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

My boyfriend is an atheist and I’m a believer

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 20, 2018August 27, 2018
Posted inHolidays

Free and low-cost High Holiday services, 2018

by J. Staff August 17, 2018September 4, 2018
"Gassed" by John Singer Sargent, 1919
Posted inColumns

From the time of Moses to now, what are the rules of war?

Rabbi Joel Landau by Rabbi Joel Landau August 16, 2018
Attendees toasting at the beginning of a Shalon meal, June 2018 (Photo/Sari Blum)
Posted inJewish Life

At these Shabbat dinners, deep thoughts are on the menu

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 16, 2018August 16, 2018
Maimonides aka Rambam was a doctor and a rabbi — one of Judaism's earliest exemplars of melding science and religion
Posted inUncategorized

Where science and Judaism meet, in synagogue

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn August 15, 2018August 15, 2018

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