Judaism

Everything you need to know about Judaism and being Jewish: the weekly Torah portion, Jewish holidays, Jewish rituals and more.

 Easy dairy recipes for Shavuot

The Jewish calendar reminds us where we’ve been — and what’s next

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 Neo-Assyrian clay tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 11: Story of the Flood. Known as the ‘Flood Tablet’ from the Library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BC.

Why does the Bible reiterate stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh?

 WRITING A Sefer Torah in Safed.

What is Torah? A translation of the mind of God

By AHARON E. WEXLER
 Torah scrolls being moved from the Western Wall to genizah.

19 historic Torah scrolls moved to genizah at Mount of Olives

 MORTGAGE: ADULT worry.

Parashat Beha’alotcha: Focus on the act

 RELEASE ACRIMONY: Jerusalem’s Hansen House, built in 1887 as a treatment center for Hansen’s Disease (modern leprosy), is now a cultural center.

Parashat Beha’alotcha: ‘Yedid Nefesh’: Unpackaging one verse

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

Understanding the different rulings of the Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Halacha

By Mark Fish

Aliyev during Herzog's visit to Azerbaijan: The government is establishing a Jewish center.

By Mark Fish
 A crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews are seen at the funeral of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein in Bnei Brak, Israel, on May 30, 2023.

Rabbi Edelstein's death starts era of decentralized rabbinic leadership - analysis

Live broadcast - Rabbi Pinto’s spiritual revolution in Miami

By Mark Fish

Watch Rabbi Pinto: "Feeling resentment about studying Torah? It’s forbidden"

By Mark Fish
 RABBANIT MICHELLE FARBER and Judi Felber (R) at the ‘siyum:’ Camaraderie and friendship.

Daf Yomi: Women study Talmud with Ra'anana rabbanit

 Samson's tomb

Samson's tomb: Appearance of a ghost and a familial journey

By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN
 THE CHILDREN of terror victim Lucy Dee meet the recipient of her organs – and listen to their mother’s donated heart.

Judaism and organ donation: Is respiratory brain death considered death?

By SHLOMO M. BRODY
 FOR MANY converts, the original impetus was not actually a Jewish partner. Pictured: Huppa in Cape Town, 1979.

Shavuot: 7 things converts can teach us about Judaism

By RAPHAEL SHUCHAT
 Women of the Wall read from a Torah scroll at the Western Wall on the seventh day of Hanukkah, December 25, 2022.

A digital Jewish library aims to add women’s Torah scholarship to its shelves

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 SIVAN RAHAV-MEIR addresses 3,890 Chabad leaders in Edison, New Jersey, this past February.

'Days Are Coming': Israeli journalist shows a Jewish calendar journey - review

By ROSS SINGER
 AFTER COVERING their heads with ‘tallitot,’ the Kohanim raise their hands to bless the congregation (Pictured: On Sukkot at the Western Wall)

Parashat Naso: The Priestly Blessing’s many layers

 THE TORAH is a Torah of life, a Torah of grace.

Parashat Naso: ‘Torat hessed’ – Shavuot

Shabbat candles

Shavuot and Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

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