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How I Got into a Long-Distance Interfaith Relationship…After I Became Jewish

Elle and James at the Trinity College Dublin library during her first visit to Ireland In a lot of ways, I never...

Zach and his great aunt Thelma When did I know Zach was husband material? It dawned on me during a trip to New...

April, 2013 Reproduced with permission, based on an original from Mayyim Hayyim. Once you walk down the seven...

Twelve years ago on a Yom Kippur afternoon, at the request of my rabbi, Steven Silver, I stood on the bimah...

By Kelly Banker Photo courtsey of Mayyim Hayyim As a young Jew raised in a secular home, I never imagined that...

The Grooms Party We just celebrated Simchat Torah as a community. The purpose of the holiday is to celebrate...

Do you know which of the following children would be considered Jewish without going through a conversion according...

Well, I went to the water one day to pray. And my soul got happy and I stayed all day. [Don’t you know...

In many religious communities, it is customary for men and women to spiritually ready themselves before they...