Ideas

10 years and 318 million words later, Sefaria brings Torah study into the digital age

Sara Wolkenfeld, the chief learning officer of the online database of Jewish text, reflects on a decade of free, open-source learning.

Ideas

Why I spent Yom Kippur protecting Palestinian villagers from settler violence

An American immigrant in Israel “self-afflicts” in the name of justice and equality.

Remembrance Ideas

Alice Shalvi pioneered religious feminism in Israel. Everyone else is still catching up.

The German-born scholar, who died Monday at 96, pioneered feminist ideas in Israel in the early 1970s when there were only a handful of women doing such work.

Street fights over prayer offer liberal Israelis a chance to define a Judaism they can believe in

Sukkot is a holiday of homecoming and homelessness

The Oslo Accords at 30: Shaping the Saudi peace deal

Jewish men (and women) think about the Roman Empire all the time. We can’t avoid it.

If you’re trying to connect to God on Yom Kippur, here’s a prayer for you

AI, pluralism and Israel: What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons

The buzzy novel ‘Whalefall’ offers a modern spin on the ancient Book of Jonah

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