Jewish Learning

Visit MyJewishLearning.com to learn more about Jewish Life.

Updated: 3 minutes 30 sec ago

Rescuing Grace

6 hours 48 minutes ago

I was speaking with a friend who was trying mightily to do the right thing in a tough situation. She was visiting Senior Living apartments with her ai...

Kveller's God Month

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 12:52

Full disclosure: Kveller.com is a partner site of our host, MyJewishLearning. In a recent blog post on the Jewish parenting site Kveller, Joyce And...

Parashat Be'Ha'alotecha: 'Am' (Yisrael) Comin' Out!

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 09:59

Coming-out (of the closet): To be in the closet means to hide ones sexual and or gender identity. Many GBLT people are out in some situations...

The Memorial

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 09:45

I recently attended my friends fathers memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly lovely nondescript room with...

Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:20

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new...

Answering the Call: Responding to Suicide and Depression in Our Communities

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 09:39

Crisis Line. May I help you? This is how I answer the phone at a local crisis center here in Mississippi, during every four hour shift I spend v...

Happy Birthday to the Ultimate Nosher

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 08:36

Last year at this time, well, I was significantly larger as you can see. Our daughter was due to arrive around May 14th, mere days before my 30th birt...

The Torah of Space Exploration

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:05

Will humans ever land on Mars? Quite a number of people are trying to make it happen. Buzz Aldrin has just published a book Mission to Mars: My Vis...

Yoda's Yiddishkeit: Jewish He Seems, Hmmm?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 13:50

The month of May, known as Liberation Month, contains Cinco de Mayo (celebrating Mexicos liberating victory over the French in 1862), Americas Mem...

Ordinary German Citizens During WWII

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 13:56

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish...

Dairy Queen

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 11:31

Sometimes the most challenging part of being a committed Reform Jew is seeking ways to incorporate Judaism into our home life in ways that are meaning...

Parashat Naso: Queer Nazir and the Twelve Identical Gifts

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 10:24

I first read Parashat Naso during my bnei mitzvah class in early 2002, long before I discovered either my passion for Judaism or my love of writi...

Gluckel of Hameln

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 15:20

Gluckel of Hameln was an intrepid businesswoman, a mother of twelve children, a passionate wife, and a memoirist. She died in 1724, at the age of seve...

"Graven Images" Onscreen: Narrowing Our View?

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 14:14

You shall have no other gods beside Me. You shall not make for yourself any graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is heaven abov...

Should Women Thank God For Not Making Them Men?

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 14:13

A recent brouhaha has emerged in the Jewish blogosphere over Rabbi Ari Hart's recent post, Should I Thank God For Not Making Me A Woman? Rabbi H...

Collective Guilt vs.

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 12:44

"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both." -Alice Stone Blackwell The Internet is a tricky beast. Sitting alone, cozy in ragged sw...

Shavuot Recipe Picks

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 07:26

And finally we get to one of my favorite Jewish holidays to cook for: Shavuot. I love making dairy meals, and even more than the meal itself, I love m...

The Mishpocheh Connection

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:53

Ive dictated a sharp article against the Jews, Joseph Goebbels boasted in a journal entry in 1933. At its mere announcement, the whole mischpoke [...

Love Our Families

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 09:00

Here at the Keshet blog, we're celebrating Mothers Day with a reminder of how important parental love and support are. So heres our Mothers Day gif...

Generosity of Spirit

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 08:00

In my last article I wrote about the need for a renaissance of mission-driven rabbis. I quoted from the powerful words of Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm given ...