7+ hour, 25+ min ago  (762+ words) For nearly 2,200 years, it lay hidden in a cave above the Dead Sea. Now, for the first time since 1968, the Great Isaiah Scroll has been unrolled to its full 24-foot length and placed on public display at the Israel Museum…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (236+ words) This week's Torah portion is Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:11 " 34:35 This week's Torah portion is Ki Tisa, which is about how the Israelites donate to building God's Mishkan, which was like a synagogue in the desert. Another key event is the golden…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (817+ words) JERUSALEM " A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczc'w, Poland. These everyday…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (590+ words) Green is no marginal voice. He is a recognized scholar of Jewish mysticism, founding dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and emeritus professor at Brandeis University. When he suggests that something intrinsic to Jewish self-understanding " amplified by Israeli power…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (32+ words) USNA Gets New Rabbi'Baltimore Jewish Times The new chaplain at the United States Naval Academy, Rabbi Levi Ceitlin, celebrated his arrival at the Academy with his family last week. (Courtesy of USNA)...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (668+ words) Going into the pandemic, Jewish Day Schools across the country were having trouble with growth. Paul Bernstein, the CEO of Prizmah, an organization that acts as a network for Jewish day schools and yeshivas across North America, in part by…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (352+ words) Eden Rovner is the co-creator and co-organizer of Goucher Hillel's campus-wide Purim drag show, and for him it is about so much more than just a Purim party. Rovner, a Junior at Goucher College, grew up in a small Jewish…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (105+ words) Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School eighth graders ventured off on their grade-wide Shabbaton last weekend, with a packed schedule and lots of fun to be had by all. (Courtesy of Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School) The post Beth Tfiloh Trip…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (748+ words) I was walking out of the Old City recently, and my mind turned to Rabbi Reuven Biermacher. He taught three classes at Aish that fateful day in 2015. A wonderful man with seven children, he did what thousands do every day…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (340+ words) When Rabbi Emily Stern was thinking about how she wanted to restructure the shul's Hebrew school after the pandemic, she said, "We wanted to include families instead of having it just be the kids." The Sunday school became a discussion-based…...