In 1986, Linda Badger was convicted of murdering her husband. She maintained that she was innocent and received a Federal court ruling in 1997 recommending a pardon based on a miscarriage of justice.

From the foreword, by Sharon Feiman-Nemser: "This book provides a rare glimpse into the hidden world of teacher thinking—how teachers of Bible and rabbinic literature decide what and how to teach and ...

This week’s Torah portion is a double portion. The reason we have double portions is so that during a Jewish leap year, when there are 13 months instead of 12, we can “unpack” the double portions so ...

What I was not considering when I resisted the Kranjec Test was what it might feel like to regularly learn from and teach Torah to people who reminded me of myself in a deep way. (JTA) — Many of my ...

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(RNS) — I will never forget the day I fell in love. It happened in the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where I was studying to become a rabbi. And, no, it was not with a ...

If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...

How can we make Bible study exciting to kids in Jewish schools, and show that it is still relevant to their daily lives? This is one of the questions that will be discussed at the Herzog College Yemei ...

The British election campaign just ended would seem an unlikely source for a Torah teaching moment, but there it was. One of the blows the Labour Party absorbed in the days preceding the election was ...

Many years ago, when I began teaching parshat hashavua to kindergartners, I began looking through resources for teaching parshat hashavua to young children and found that there were very few (First ...