Torah Study

Silhouette of a woman standing alone on a desert sand dune against a sunset

We’ve Been Here Before: Spiritual Wisdom for Enduring Coronavirus

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

March 15, 2020

The coronavirus-compelled communal self-quarantine felt vaguely familiar: Here we are bamidbar (back in the wilderness), reliving Numbers, when Miriam becomes infected with a scaly, white, and highly contagious skin condition. But we’ve gotten through it before, and we will now, too.

Social Justice

Advocacy 101: Lessons from the Daughters of Zelophehad

Rachel Chung

We know from years of policy advocacy, though, that those phone calls - those seemingly small asks - do matter. The staff members who answer the phones in Congressional offices keep a tally of who calls and on what topic, and they report back to their colleagues and, ultimately, to the senator or representative who want to know what their constituents care about.

Wooden calendar showing February 29th as the date

Torah Study

It's a Leap Year! What's the Jewish Significance?

Cantor Marshall Portnoy

February 27, 2020

This year is a leap year, and February 29th is Shabbat. What does a leap year look like on the Jewish calendar?

Voting Rights

What’s So Jewish About Voting?

Rabbi Dara Lithwick

Judaism teaches us that voting is not just a civic duty. In fact, throughout Jewish history, many of our rabbis and sages have framed voting as a mitzvah, a Jewish imperative. Our tradition views us as working in partnership with God to create a better world – as we pray...

Arts and Culture

Lessons in Gratitude from a Jewish Humorist

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

November 27, 2019

We sat down with bestselling author, editor, and commentator A.J. Jacobs to talk about lessons he’s learned about thankfulness from his over-the-top social experiments.