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Every year, as we study this week’s Torah portion, Bereshit, I find myself thinking of two remarkable rabbis.  The first rabbi I associate with Parashat Bereshit is Rabbi Sally J. Priesand. In 1972, Rabbi Priesand was ordained by the Hebrew Union...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Gali Segal and Ben Binyamin, two young people engaged to be married, were among those dancing at the Nova festival when...

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  INDEPENDENT I humbly refer the question to rabbis far older and more learned than I, beginning with the third-century Rabbi Yochanan. His response (in the Babylonian...

Autumn fills my soul with beauty. I take delight in the crisp air, and the artist’s array of beautiful leaves. The audible crunch of leaves under my boots is an old familiar sound. I welcome dusk at an earlier hour. The long evening stretches ahead...

Growing up, I dreaded Yom Kippur. Not merely the frightening and guilt-evoking liturgy of sin and repentance, not only having to go 24 hours without food, but also for the mood and the obligations of this challenging day itself.  Our family spent...

Living Jewishly is intense (in the best sense of the word).  The Aseret Yemei Teshuvah, the Ten Days of Repentance, are upon us. The penultimate parsha, Ha’azinu could not be more poignant. Almost the entire parsha consists of Deuteronomy chapter...

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen. He asked her about it. "This is the Bexfield diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible...

Ki Teitzei means when you leave. When we leave our expectations over the messes great and little, some we have made, some made for us. When we cease to compare the what-it-is to the what-we-wanted or the-way-it-was-supposed-to-be. When we leave behind...

(JTA) — As an art director at the United States Postal Service, Antonio Alcalá has designed stamps honoring Woodstock, the Emancipation Proclamation and Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s book classic “A Snowy Day.” But this year’s USPS Hanukkah...

As we approach the High Holy Days, the Hebrew month of Elul, which began last night, offers us a chance to hit the proverbial "pause" button, take a breath, and reset. Traditionally, Elul practices for High Holy Days focus on deep introspection, encouraging...

In Jewish tradition, naming newborns after loved ones who have passed away is a profound way to honor and keep their legacy alive. Have you ever looked at a child and seen not only the soul in front of you but someone you loved and lost? When my mother...