Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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News Parents of American-Israeli hostage hope attending Biden’s State of the Union is one step closer to bringing their son home
Yael and Adi Alexander last spoke to their son, Edan, a lone soldier in the IDF, on the morning of Oct. 7. 'I just want to hug Edan,' Yael said.
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News Why would anyone convert to Judaism after Oct. 7?
Despite rising antisemitism, interest in conversion is up and those already on the path are sticking with it
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News ‘House of Lev’: A former hip hop dancer and makeup artist document their new Orthodox life online
Akiva and Chava Hart and their 6 children converted to Judaism Nov. 5, but have been creating Jewish content online for a year
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Opinion This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
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News $2 million initiative aims to recruit more Jewish poll workers
‘We operate under the assumption that democracy is fragile,’ said Aaron Dorfman, the executive director of the project
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News Volunteering to help Ukraine’s refugees amid eerie echoes of long-gone Jewish life
'I wanted to show up as a Jewish person,' says US doctor working with Israeli group in Poland and Ukraine
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News Conservative rabbis approve a new way to call nonbinary people up to Torah
A Rabbinical Assembly committee voted 24-0 to endorse language that does not invoke gender
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News More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it
Rabbis on either side of the debate say its outcome will be consequential for the movement
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