Mother and daughter stood next to one another at the bimah as part of a jubilant bat mitzvah ceremony. Then, one of them took a deep breath and began to recite verses from that week’s Torah portion.

This article examines the goals, methodology and sources of the twelfth-century Hebraist Nicolaus Maniacoria's Suffraganeus bibliothece. A summary of his statements concerning the aims and purpose of ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...

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