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Two Jewish girls protesting against child slavery with signs in English and Yiddish, 1909. (Photo/Library of Congress-George Grantham Bain collection)
Posted inColumns

Looking at slavery in the Torah through a modern lens

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 17, 2023
The Codex Sassoon, estimated to be about 1,000 years old, is going to auction at Sotheby's. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Sotheby's)
Posted inU.S.

The oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible is headed to auction this spring

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA February 16, 2023
Rabbi Gordon Freeman wearing the tallit his daughters gave him, which has the names of all his grandchildren on it. He is standing by a painting from The Sh'ma Project, which he and two friends put together.
Posted inJewish Life

Why this local rabbi is embracing his 80s with a second bar mitzvah

by Liz Harris February 15, 2023
Moses and Jethro in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments"
Posted inTorah

Here’s to the non-Jews in the Torah! (There are more than you might think)

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 10, 2023February 10, 2023
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel; Images/Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953, Creative Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Can a Jewish fan watch the Super Bowl with a clean conscience? The rabbis had thoughts.

Rabba Yaffa Epstein by Rabba Yaffa Epstein and JTA February 10, 2023February 10, 2023
Asher Shasho Levy is the hazzan at The Kitchen, an independent synagogue in San Francisco.
Posted inMusic

Meet Asher Shasho Levy, The Kitchen’s new hazzan and oud master

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert February 6, 2023September 24, 2023
a 19th century painting of the scene
Posted inTorah

The monumental things that happen in the in-between

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf February 3, 2023February 2, 2023
the canopy of a tall tree, seen from below
Posted inLocal Voice

Trees, humans, and the City of San Francisco: A Tu B’Shevat warning

Rabbi Joel Landau by Rabbi Joel Landau February 3, 2023February 3, 2023
Hebrew College, which sold its Newton Centre, Massachusetts campus in 2018, is now the second major rabbinical school in the United States to do away with rules barring students from dating or marrying non-Jews. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hebrew College)
Posted inU.S.

In a shift, Boston’s Hebrew College will now ordain rabbis whose partners are not Jewish

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA February 1, 2023February 1, 2023
Activists with the Jewish climate change group Dayenu at a New York City event in April 2021. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inHolidays

Eco-anxious? Here’s how Judaism can help us face the climate crisis

Rabbi Laura Bellows by Rabbi Laura Bellows January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

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