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At the risk of creating another line in the sand between feminists, I am going to weigh in on the midrash manicure thing. This phenomenon is, in my opinion, a new low in girls’ Jewish education. I ...

The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11, 2020, 1,015 days ago from this article’s Dec. 21 publication. For more than 1,000 of those days, a Zoom beit midrash has met ...

I had heard about “Midrash Manicures” before, but it didn’t really catch my attention until it hit the big time with this recent article in The New York Times. The story was about Rabbi Yael ...

Jack and Owen sit down with Sports Writers Henry Light and Rowan Shea to break down Oregon’s win over Wisconsin, the return of basketball season,... Often students groups look for ways to build ...

Parshat Bechukotai is one of the two places in the Torah where a “Tochacha” – a rebuke – is presented. The Jewish People are told in very stark terms that if they keep the Torah they will live ...

Midrash is text behind the biblical text. It helps bring biblical stories to life so Jews can better engage with their religion. But Midrash, in many cases, can feel like reality. Rabbis often teach ...

Teacher: So we’ve been talking about "tovim hashnaim min ha’echad." And how two people can be better when they are working together. Now I am going to show you a picture. Some pictures. I want you to ...

At Beth Midrash Harav B’Nai Jacob, an Orthodox synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia, the community that members have fostered over the past five-plus decades is almost certainly going to last, Rabbi ...