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Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, "Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites," 1650 (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTorah

The Torah cannot justify revenge attacks in the West Bank

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg July 13, 2023July 14, 2023
Azara participants carry a Torah scroll. (Photo/JTA-Naomi Klionsky)
Posted inWorld

A non-denominational yeshiva opens in Scotland, inspired by models in US and Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 12, 2023July 12, 2023
A Resetting the Table Town Square held in the Harlem JCC, New York City, March 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inNews

Evangelical churches are turning to a Jewish nonprofit to help them have hard conversations

by Ron Kampeas July 12, 2023July 12, 2023
(Photo/pxfuel.com CC0)
Posted inJewish Life

This summer, make time to learn the Torah of the garden

Rabbi Jill Hammer by Rabbi Jill Hammer July 6, 2023July 6, 2023
Israelis protest against the government’s planned judicial overhaul, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Jamal Awad-Flash90)
Posted inTorah

Like the ancient Israelites, the cure to modern Israel’s ills is right in front of us

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf June 29, 2023June 29, 2023
Chel Mandell (left) leads a TzimTzum Shabbat in Santa Cruz. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inNorthern California

Queer group in Santa Cruz celebrates Judaism ‘in their own light’

by Naomi Friedland June 26, 2023June 27, 2023
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inLocal Voice

How my community is trying to fix a broken b’mitzvah system

Zvika Krieger by Zvika Krieger June 22, 2023June 23, 2023
Detail from "The Death of Korah, Dathan and Abiram" by Gustave Doré, 1865
Posted inTorah

If your emotional home is in a bad place, move it

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
From a photo of Rabbi Sally Priesand by Joan Roth that will soon be on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Posted inArt

National Portrait Gallery to display portrait of Sally Priesand, first ordained woman rabbi in American history

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 22, 2023
A dragon analogous to Sefer Yetzirah's T'li illustrates the Lunar Nodes in "Astronomicum Caesareum" by Petrus Apianus, 1540.
Posted inAstrolojew

Horoscopes for Tamuz: A major shift in Jewish astrology this month

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude June 19, 2023June 19, 2023

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