A program from Melton and Matan adapts Torah, prayer and holiday study for learners long left out of formal adult education.
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Two new DC congregations cater to Black Jews

Jews of color continue to face barriers to full inclusion in the Jewish community. Now they are forming their own worship ...
By Christopher Mendonca Christian liturgical season of Lent is closely linked to 40-day sojourn of Israel in the desert as they journeyed to the Promised Land. The 40-day season of Lent is a time ...
So what purpose does a synagogue—or any sacred space—serve? The Kotzker Rebbe addressed a similar question directly: “Where does God dwell?” Some replied, “Everywhere—there is no place devoid of His ...
(JTA) — When he’s not working at the local dog care and boarding center, 24-year-old Raffi Stein-Klotz is usually playing kickball or tending to the garden at his residential facility in Boca Raton.
This is a revised version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. Di Tsukunft (The Future) A book of ...
If it is true that a serious artist is one with the capacity to go on reinventing who they are in their work, Leonard Cohen unquestionably counts as serious. Not that anyone is likely to think of him ...
Join us virtually for a series of conversations hosted by MCSJE core faculty members, in which leading scholars of Jewish education discuss what they have learned from their investigations of various ...
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic ...
As friends, relatives and even colleagues dive headlong into our AI future, I’ve been stuck nervously on the platform’s edge.
Geffen still cannot speak, but as I recite the Shema, he opens his eyes. I urge him to hold on, to fight, to push through – and remind him of our agreement: that when, God willing, he recovers, we ...
The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...