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Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube For secular women in Eretz Yisroel, mikvah is hard enough as is. It feels like an archaic, ancient mitzvah that takes too much time and commitment – but she knows its holy, so she pushes herself to go anyway. And then, as she’s standing in the…
Jacob’s Well in Haran is not only a place of deep Torah meaning; it is also an important tourist destination for Jewish travelers This week’s Torah portion tells the story of Jacob and Rachel’s meeting. It is written: “Then Jacob…
When Dr. Katharina von Schnurbein was offered the position of Germany’s commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism, she did not hesitate. For someone who had spent more than a decade working to combat…
On June 17, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived by boat to watch three flags being raised over the Gulf of Finland: those of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. Gazprom had erected three…
It’s a movement that was almost lost to the world because of the Holocaust. But the Jewish Bund, born in Eastern Europe in the late 1890s, has its longest-standing branch in Australia. It stands for secular Jewish identity…
Seeing the headline above may be enough for some of you to opt out and skip this page. Please don’t! When my editor asked me to write about shiva, given the realities of our post-Oct. 7 lives, expanding from my regular column to…
The Jewish remembrance prayer Yizkor, a special memorial invocation for the departed, is recited in the synagogue four times a year, following the Torah reading on the last day of Passover, the second day of Shavuot, Shmini…