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The bride and groom, Ophir Haberer and Adi Aboody, exit the chuppah after the ceremony with family and friends applauding. (Photo/JTA-Luna Munn Photography)
Posted inUnions

Their wilderness-inspired Jewish wedding featured an animal-skin ketubah and ‘first fruits’ altar

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA August 8, 2022
"Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem" by Francesco Hayez, 1867
Posted inTisha B'Av

Considering the state of America this Tisha B’Av, as we mourn ancient destruction

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg August 5, 2022August 3, 2022
"The City of Refuge" by Charles Foster, 1897
Posted inTorah

Providing sanctuary for refugees is a Biblical imperative

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein July 29, 2022July 28, 2022
Young women dancing on Tu B'Av on Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, 1944. (Photo/Ein Hashofet archive)
Posted inTu B'Av

Jewish horoscopes: This month, don’t just hear — listen!

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude July 28, 2022July 28, 2022
Nether Rabbi Amy Wallk nor Rabbi Mark Cohn had been looking for a relationship when they first met at the Shalom Hartman Institute in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Tamar Katz)
Posted inUnions

Two rabbis, from two different denominations, get a second chance at love

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA July 26, 2022July 27, 2022
engraving of several women standing before moses, who is seated on a throne
Posted inTorah

In this week’s Torah portion, women stand up for their rights — and win

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf July 22, 2022July 22, 2022
An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
Posted inOpinion

The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022
Balaam is stopped by an angel while on his way to curse the Israelites, as in this week's Torah portion, from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicles.
Posted inTorah

Judaism’s revolutionary approach to history

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg July 15, 2022July 14, 2022
Dean MacDonald in his San Francisco studio
Posted inCulture

Artist Dean MacDonald’s reimagined mezuzahs go beyond the doorframe

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
“Moses Smiteth the Rock in the Desert,” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

So you’ve got this kind of miracle, and this kind, and … 

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen July 8, 2022July 7, 2022

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