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The Jewish High Holy Days start this weekend with Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashana will begin Friday and end Sunday evening. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, will be Sept. 25.

Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, is approaching. But what is Yom Kippur? When is it in 2022? Here’s what you need to know.

There's a generational divide in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine. For educators, the goal is creating values-based conversations and getting students to appreciate subtlety.

Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash this fall. Danielle Kranjec The Kranjec Test — named for Danielle Kranjec, the Jewish educator who created it — holds that collections of texts known as source sheets used in Jewish learning must include at least one non-male voice. It’s the Jewish studies equivalent of the well-known Bechdel Test for film, in which movies pass if t...

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I resisted the call to include non-male voices every time I taught Torah. Then I tried it. December 30, 2020 5:13 pm A Jewish woman holding a Jewish Tanakh, which includes the books of the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. (Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash this fall. The K...

28 shares Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat/via JTA) JTA — When Danielle Kranjec committed to using only Jewish texts written by women and queer people in the classes she taught for Hillel International’s Springboard Fellowship, a program that places recent college graduates in positions at college campus Hillels across the country, she knew she was taking on ...

When Danielle Kranjec committed to using only Jewish texts written by women and queer people in the classes she taught for Hillel International’s Springboard Fellowship, a program that places recent college graduates in positions at college campus Hillels across the country, she knew she was taking on a challenging task. After all, for most of Jewish history, women weren’t encouraged to take on religious leadership roles or write commentaries on the Torah or Talmud. But Kranjec knew that el...