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By the Numbers
12 Ketubah Facts Every Jew Should Know

Learn about the document that is essential for Jewish marriage.
10 Questions: Take the Havdalah Quiz

Test your knowledge of a weekly Jewish ritual.
Your Questions
What’s the Jewish View on Meds for Weight Loss?

If your doctor were to prescribe this (or any) medication, it’s a mitzvah to take care of your health and listen to your doctor.
Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Money” Teach You?

Voices
How I Got off Instagram, and You Can Too

You might think the contemporary phenomena of social media and its effect on our mental health is a modern issue. In reality, the fact that everything we see, hear, and read burrows into our minds and takes up space in our hearts actually goes back to the very beginning of humankind.
Parshah
Life-Long Living

Truth is consistent, from beginning to end. To truly live, one needs to be alive throughout one's life...
Even the angel Micha'el--the greatest of the angels--would give up all of his service and his comprehension of G-dliness for even a single mitzvah of tzitzit--for one of the four tzitzit that every Jew has
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov