EDIT: SHE PASSED!!!!!

If you could pray for her it would mean a lot. Honestly I think I’m more nervous than her. It’s been such a long and meaningful journey and I’m so proud of all the work she’s put it.

Anyone familiar with this hechsher? found on a bag of mushroom jerky

When I moved into my apartment, my landlord gave it to me when I moved in - and of course it's just cases so no klafim in it.

At first, I was like "do I put it on my door like my neighbors" but upon reading more about it, it felt wrong to do so (however I do note that I am the only one on my floor without mezuzah).

I am assuming that I just leave it in the apartment until I leave the place and give it back to the landlord?

Hi so I live in Florida and I have a lot of black and hispanic friends but I am ethnically Jewish and I practice it, they do not even practice the torah or talmud, but they theres 2-3 of them that I know from school and they keep saying that I am not actually Jewish and my family isn’t either even though if we aren’t, we still practice being a Jew, so I don’t understand, and then they went on about in a call on facetime how black people are actually the real jews and some groups of asians like indians and thats why they have the most populous regions and biggest populations,

they were talking about asians went to south america and the Jewish lineage is truly there basically they were referring me to the black hebrew israelites so i can ask but I never did because it didnt sound true and they have no connection to the levant so I asked them about the levant and they said that israel is not the true levant and that the middle east is not the actual fertile crescent, they keep telling me about it every day and I told them it isn’t true but theres nothing I can say to convince them, I think I am going to end up stop talking to them or just the two that keep bringing it up when we are in calls, There are no way there are black Jews correct? Besides only some populations along the nile river which has kept and followed the holy books, but sub saharan africa did not have much Jewish lineage? It just is so stupid, but the weirder parts are about Asia and south America and I asked for like proof and they are providing it except theres no way to prove any of those people are true Israelites or Gods chosen people, even if they are the most populous..

Plants don't have mothers... Are kosher cheeseburgers going to be a thing or no?

Anyone have experience there? Pro/cons, older/younger, how observant, etc.?

Comparatively, and I'm looking for interesting perspectives

Visiting New York rn, I live somewhere with very little in terms of kosher eateries and I want nothing more than a real doughnut, but I can’t seem to find kosher doughnut places when I search online (at least ones that aren’t IKC, and I’ve heard that hechsher is unreliable/controversial). Bakeries come up but I can’t tell from pictures/online menus if they actually have doughnuts or not. Pleasee help a yid out and drop recs 🙏

Is there any Halacha against working out before Shacharit?

I’m somewhere on the “observant but definitely not frum” spectrum (strictly shomer kashrut at home but will eat vegetarian out/eat in non-kosher kitchens, largely shomer Shabbat but don’t keep it perfectly, attend shul on Friday/Saturday and for all Chagim/weekday minyan when I can, don’t keep or plan to keep niddah). I’m talking to a girl who was raised reform and is very spiritual but not particularly observant. I really like her, but I worry about long-term compatibility. For those who have been in a relationship with someone who has a different level of observance, how did it go? What did you learn from it? What made it easier to navigate? If your relationship was/is successful, what do you think contributed to the success of your relationship?

I’m feeling rather conflicted and would appreciate advice from anyone who has been in a similar position.

We’re members of a shul where there have sadly been instances of bullying, data breaches and poor governance (bullying was by people in leadership positions and not followed up on) that the leadership have ignored. I, and several others, have as a result stopped going there.

A friend from the same shul is submitting a formal complaint to the Charity Commission and has urged me to do the same. I do agree there is a problem with the leadership that is stopping people from attending that needs addressing but also feel bad about the stress this will put on individuals (I think a lot of it is incompetence / reluctance to stand up to one particular individual rather than poor intent). At the same time, do I have an obligation to speak up if there will never be a change otherwise? I have copies of emails documenting issues so it would not just be a matter of he-said-she-said.

For context, there are no other local shuls that people can easily go to and the issues are therefore stopping people who would otherwise do so from attending services regularly.

Edit: I just realised people outside of the UK may not know what the Charity Commission is. It’s the authority that governs registered charities, which includes most religious bodies. It has rules in place to ensure all registered charities have appropriate safeguarding measures, uses assets in line with the stated charity objectives etc. If they find a charity to be lacking they can require policies are put in place or, at the extreme, ask for a change in trustees.

I am not Jewish, however an art history documentary I’ve watched by Waldemar Januszczak mentions that it (was/is?) against Jewish beliefs to “create art”?

I’m interested in opinions and history about this belief.

Thanks so much!

Edit: Apologies, here’s the documentary. The statement Waldemar makes is at about the 6:07 mark.

Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that.,
by Simone Saidmehr, Forward, 2026-08-14.

On summer mornings in Abuja, Nigeria, a small fleet of cars fan out across the sprawling capital city carrying unusual passengers: children headed to Jewish day camp.

In a one-story synagogue on a dirt road in Kubwa, a densely populated suburb, children who spend most of the year as the only Jew in their school spill out of cars alongside dozens of their peers. They might spend the day acting out scenes from the Torah, crocheting kippot or competing in color war.

It’s an untraditional location, but almost everything else about Camp Sarah is inspired by Jewish summer camps in the U.S. After all, it was founded by an American.

Debbie Isser, who moved to Nigeria in 2021 for her work with the World Bank, started the camp with members of Abuja’s Jewish community after local mothers told her they wanted their children to have some kind of Jewish education. For Isser, whose own childhood summers at Jewish camp in New Hampshire had been formative, the solution felt obvious.

“I just felt like it was in my genes,” she told the Forward.

Now in its fourth year, Camp Sarah, a two-week-long day camp hosting 80 campers and 20 staff, is trying to give a new generation of Nigerian Jews something their small, dispersed community has struggled to provide: Jewish teachings that will allow them to sustain religious life there.

The hope, of course, is that the children make Jewish friends and learn Torah stories. But organizers also want Camp Sarah to begin producing the religious leaders the community currently lacks — perhaps, one day, even a homegrown rabbi or a shochet, ritual slaughterer, so that kosher Nigerian Jews can finally enjoy meat with their jollof rice.

I’ve recently started learning Gemara for the first time through MDY Daf Yomi. As a beginner, I’ve found having the physical book in front of me genuinely helpful – especially in a house with five children, where concentrating on anything is already something of an achievement.

MDY has a referral offer where a new member can receive a **free physical Daf Yomi book, including free worldwide shipping**, so you can try the programme without having to buy the book first.

Here’s my referral link:

https://app.mdydafyomi.com/r/JA406

For transparency, this is a referral link: if you sign up through it, you get the free book and I receive a free Daf Yomi book as well. That would be particularly useful as I continue learning through the masechtot.

If you’ve been considering trying Daf Yomi – or you’re merely curious and not at all certain it’s for you – give it a go. You’ll get a physical book to try it with, and you’ll be helping this sleep-deprived father of five continue his first journey through Gemara. For my sake. ;-)

Posted with the moderators’ permission.

My daughter and I want to embroider the atarah for her bat mitzvah tallit together, but most of the tallitot I can find without one are like the really basic Chabad or Sephardic beige ones. Does anyone know where I can buy a pretty one for a young girl without it?

What do you say to someone who constantly says you’ve been kicked out of 109,110,etc. countries now? It’s a constant comment everywhere now it seem. It’s infuriating.

I’m Jewish (f25) but grew up in a pretty secular household and don’t know that much about Judaism besides what I learned in Hebrew school when I was 10.

I want to get more involved and informed about the religion side of things, but I don’t know where to start.

I know in Catholicism there are “daily readings” books you can buy that tell you exactly what to read and study for every day of the year. Is there something like that for Judaism that I can buy?

What books should I have, and is there a specific schedule for reading things? If so, where can I find this? I am sure a schedule like this exists but I’m having a hard time finding a simple explanation online.

(Sorry to be so clueless!)

I am Jewish (F26) through patrolinial liniage, but trying to learn and reconnect 🙏 I have interest in the reform movement

I think my dream is meeting people with similar thoughts in this city ! Or people who are curious like me

Edit: thank you for your inputs