Her short walk from pew to lectern was a giant leap for American Judaism: When she got there, Judith Kaplan became the first Jewish girl in America to become a bat mitzvah. The synagogue where it ...
This perspective, which highlights the centrality and democratization of Torah learning, would align well with other portrayals of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the Talmud, particularly his halakhic ...
There’s a powerful Jewish value, elu v’elu ... and the latter had abandoned organized Judaism but hung out almost exclusively with other old Russian Jews. Absorbing their contrasting histories ...