Religion

Meet the teenaged girl who read the Talmud in just 2.5 years, flouting gender and speed norms

Elke Bentley, 18, read the whole Babylonian Talmud five years faster than the traditional reading cycle as Jewish women have had to fight for their access to read Jewish texts.

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2 incarcerated men wanted to convert to Judaism. This rabbi helped them do it.

Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp’s unusual efforts to achieve a behind-bars conversion is documented in the podcast “Tales of the Unbound.”

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How the war in Gaza is changing the Jewish summer camp experience for counselors and campers

Programs that took Zionism as a given are looking for ways to foster civil discourse among staff and campers who might disagree abut Israel.

A Jewish couple was barred from adopting a child through a Christian agency. They’re now the face of an anti-Project 2025 campaign.

A new Shazam-style bot will identify Shlomo Carlebach’s melodies

Tzipi Yudkin, the mother of fallen soldier Yisrael Yudkin, pushed for the traditional Hebrew abbreviation to be inscribed on his gravestone. (Screenshot)

As Israel debates drafting haredi Orthodox, bereaved families now allowed to add ‘May God avenge his blood’ to soldiers’ gravestones

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Orthodox minor-league pitcher Jacob Steinmetz is eating kosher delivery, walking to the stadium on Shabbat — and staying focused on the game

Following internal drama over Israel, Reconstructionist Judaism affirms support for progressive Zionism and 2-state solution

Headstones knocked over at a cemetery

176 Jewish gravestones vandalized at 2 Cincinnati cemeteries

Hadar’s new plan has it minting rabbis, opening synagogues and sending teens to Israel. Is it a denomination now?

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