“The purpose of prayer is to get into a habit of building a connection with God,” Rabbi Miller told us. “We can ask God for ...
Where the series misses its deepest opportunity, however, is in its treatment of conversion. Nearly 70% of Jews outside the ...
Bred in America's Bible Belt and making a living performing in bars, Joe Buchanan converted to Judaism after his wife of 13 ...
In artist Yona Verwer’s “Immersion VIII,” a nude woman in a fetal position floats in a swirl of water. The image is at once ethereal and surreal, not unlike Verwer’s first mikveh experience, a ...
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In the Netflix show, Joanne is called a ‘shiksa’ – a disparaging term that’s used to describe a non-Jewish girl or woman.
(New York Jewish Week) — Sasha Vasilyuk was surprised to be named a finalist for the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, wondering if the judges were going to honor an author whose “last name ...