Just a dozen years ago, Googling ‘Talmud’ returned varied results of dubious provenance. Enter Sefaria, the online database of Jewish texts that was born a decade ago.

Rita Plush learned to recite Kaddish after her mother died. Then she lost her spouse and two of her three kids. Grief-stricken, she found comfort in learning.

While the pandemic has affected us all, it also has underscored the fact that the weak, the vulnerable and the stranger are especially exposed and under threat.

Rabbi Linda Motzkin launched the Community Torah Project to enlist the help of volunteers in producing a Torah scroll, from prepping parchment to stitching together panels of text.

In the fall of 1972, when I was starting the third grade, I moved to London with my parents and my brothers for my father’s