Once demonized as the community embraced public schools, they eventually came into their own by teaching ‘Judaism and Americanism’ side by side

For me, learning Hebrew was a way to fit in as a Russian immigrant growing up in Israel. For the kids in my Hebrew school class in California, the language meant something entirely different.

As a boy, I feared dropping the Torah scrolls, or writing marginalia in other texts. But I overcame that anxiety once I entered academe, whose doors were opened by great Jewish thinkers before my time

I constantly cut Hebrew School classes to play electric guitars and eat Dunkin’ Donuts. Years later, I learned a valuable lesson.

As a child, I hated the classes at my synagogue’s cheder. Now I send my own children there—and I’m falling in love with Sunday school for the first time.

The crooner will play a solo show in Israel on Wednesday

Seeing the Empire State Building lit in blue and white set my mind whirling

Writing a song for my synagogue, hearing it sung at Lincoln Center, and finally finding the right words to tell my kids why Judaism is important

By making it more like other parts of teens’ lives?

JTA offers solutions to a problem that doesn’t seem to exist

Bringing traditional music into the club, and pop sounds into the chapel

An eleven-year-old who’s finding her way

Five days, 2,000 participants, and countless pints of Guinness in the English countryside: An American reports from Limmud.