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A first-of-its-kind Jerusalem event shows that Talmud learning is for women, too

The Jerusalem event showed the world that women’s scholarship is real and adds immensely to the Jewish world, writes an Orthodox Israeli woman.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of ‘Prozac Nation,’ dies of breast cancer at age 52

The famed Jewish writer became an advocate for testing for the BRCA gene mutation, which disproportionately affects Jewish women.

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I was skeptical about the march against anti-Semitism. I was wrong.

I was worried that the rally wouldn’t be diverse, and I also wasn’t used to proclaiming my Jewish identity so publicly, writes the editor of Kveller.

Audiences loved ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish, but Yiddish itself still gets no love

90,000 Orthodox Jews celebrated the Talmud on New Year’s Day. So did these 350 secular teens.

Ezra Koenig plays with Vampire Weekend in Madrid, Nov. 25, 2019. (Mariano Regidor/Redferns/Getty Images)

Ezra Koenig explains the Jewish history behind the Vampire Weekend song ‘Harmony Hall’

Launch of Amazon’s Hebrew storefront offers American expats a taste of home

NJ man enlists Twitter to get grandmother’s lost Hanukkah gift to her grandson

Chickpeas are set for world domination in 2020

At age 33, I’m finally celebrating my first Hanukkah

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