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"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900. The biblical character of Samson is the best known Nazirite.
Posted inTorah

The spiritually solitary have a place in the Jewish world

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 10, 2022June 9, 2022
Rabbi Harold Kravitz in 2013, leading a Torah study group at Adath Jeshurun Congregation. (Photo/Forward-Lee Prohofsky)
Posted inReligion

‘Trying to balance values’: new Conservative head rabbi on intermarriage, inclusion and Israel

by Sheree R. Curry and Forward June 9, 2022
A man walking on cracked land scorched by heat waves in Mumbai, India, May 15, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Satish Bate-Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Jewish environmental thought is not ready for the climate crisis. But our tradition is.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman and JTA June 8, 2022
Sandra Razieli officiated Teva Goldstein's bat mitzvah in Maui, Dec. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Anna Kim Photography)
Posted inTravel

Mazel tov in Maui, courtesy of former East Bay tutor  

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
The three Torahs in the center are decked out in the covers Congregation Sinai commissioned from artist April Berger.
Posted inCulture

San Francisco artist April Berger leans into Judaica with Torah covers project

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 6, 2022June 8, 2022
“Moses and the Ten Commandments,” engraving by H. Martin, ca. 1850
Posted inAstrolojew

Jewish horoscopes: This month, you’ve got to have heart

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude June 3, 2022
"The Numbering of the Israelites," engraving by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, mid-19th century
Posted inTorah

How to speak of God’s love in a hurting world? In a whisper.

George Altshuler by George Altshuler June 3, 2022June 2, 2022
a 19th century painting of the scene
Posted inTorah

Ready to move your emotional home to the Promised Land?

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg May 27, 2022May 26, 2022
Zvika Krieger, the new spiritual leader of Chochmat HaLev, has brought Jewish spirituality to many milieus — including leading Shabbat services at Burning Man in 2018. (Background photo/Sasha Juliard)
Posted inTech

WhatsApp group from new Chochmat leader brings Counting Omer to local and global audience

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 24, 2022May 26, 2022

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