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By the Numbers
12 Ketubah Facts Every Jew Should Know
Learn about the document that is essential for Jewish marriage.
Learn about the document that is essential for Jewish marriage.
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.
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
Video
A Better Way to Combat Antisemitism
Tommy‘s basketball coach shows him that hatred and anger gets him nowhere, but seeing the spark inside another person could change the world.
Tommy‘s basketball coach shows him that hatred and anger gets him nowhere, but seeing the spark inside another person could change the world.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
Confessions of a Hassidic Feminist
Rivkah Slonim has been breaking stereotypes, sharing information and inspiration, and making an outsized mark on the Jewish world.
Rivkah Slonim has been breaking stereotypes, sharing information and inspiration, and making an outsized mark on the Jewish world.
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.
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.
Life-Long Living
Truth is consistent, from beginning to end. To truly live, one needs to be alive throughout one's life...
Truth is consistent, from beginning to end. To truly live, one needs to be alive throughout one's life...
This all the nations of the world must know: only our bodies were sent into exile and subjugated to alien rule; our souls were not given over into captivity and foreign rule... In any matter affecting the Jewish religion, the Torah, and its mitzvot and customs, we are not subject to the dictates of any power.
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitche (quoted by his son, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, at the Leningrad train station upon being sent to exile by the Soviet regime in 1927)
Print Magazine
Yom Kippur is described in many ways. One very poignant description is that it is “once in a year.”
You see, the human soul is also described in many ways, with five different names, each describing a deeper level of her being. The fifth, deepest level is called yechidah, which means “one and unique.” Yechidah is th...
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