November 2015

Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...

Do you want to feel like your life has meaning? Do you want to be connected to other individuals like yourself? Do ...

I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...

We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...

I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...

Walking by the seasonal decorations already set up at stores around Jackson, I was quickly drawn into the glitz and glimmer of the ...

May Peleg-Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first trans chairperson and former owner of Jerusalem’s only queer nightclub “Mikveh” took her ...

We moved into Shabbat last week with the news of the attacks in Paris on our minds. The multiple coordinated ...

Black Friday gets kind of a bad reputation these days. Especially with some stores making employees work on Thanksgiving Thursday ...

It’s over a month now since the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College announced that it would consider intermarried candidates for admission to ...