Avigayil Halpern is publishing a weekly feminist dvar Torah on the parsha through her newsletter, Approaching, which is being crossposted to Jewschool. You can subscribe to Approaching here. Tazria and Metzora largely deal with interactions of human bodies with one…
Eliana Fishman works in political data in Washington, DC. What is Hishbati? Hishbati is a new non- and anti-Zionist Beit Midrash. We provide a space for Jews to learn and teach Torah without the assumption that Zionism is inherently Jewish,…
Avigayil Halpern is publishing a weekly feminist dvar Torah on the parsha though her newsletter, Approaching, which is being crossposted to Jewschool. You can subscribe to her newsletter here. Parshat Shmini begins with the conclusion of the ceremonies that dedicate the…
Z’man Heruteinu: The Time of Our (Un)Freedom A Midrash for a Pandemic Passover This piece expands upon the verses from Deuteronomy to tell my/our story of the pandemic, just as the Haggadah uses those same verses to tell the story…
Avigayil Halpern is publishing a weekly feminist dvar Torah on the parsha though her newsletter, Approaching, which is being crossposted to Jewschool. You can subscribe to her newsletter here. One of the most affecting moments in Parshat Tzav is when,…
Avigayil Halpern is publishing a weekly feminist dvar Torah on the parsha though her newsletter, Approaching, which is being crossposted to Jewschool. You can subscribe to her newsletter here. Vayikra is a parsha that overflows with bodies. The body of…
Okay so now that all the hullabaloo around the daf yomi is settling down, and you’re thinking to yourself: “Where can I get a more curated experience? Perhaps a daf a week that goes deep but doesn’t go on forever?…
[This is the second of a series of posts on nonviolence in Exodus. The first one, by Aron Wander, is here.] This article by Eli Ungar-Sargon is an adaptation of a drash given to the Shtibl community over Zoom on…
guestpost by Aron Wander Everyday forms of resistance make no headlines. – James Scott, Weapons of the Weak This past August, an exhibit titled “Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust” opened at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. The Senior Curator,…
The author, the National Jewish Educator for Avodah, originally wrote this for the Avodah Service Corps. The Festival of Sukkot is about closure. It arrives dramatically as the culmination of not one but two holiday cycles, the Three Pilgrimage Festivals,…