April 2016

Passover and Questions for All

As Passover draws to a close this weekend, I’m thinking about two things: a pizza binge on Friday night and ...

No Sub For You: The Hardest Part of the Passover Pilgrimage

I’m a Florida native. I’ve been described as a fish, spending so much time in the water, swimming and splashing ...

Taking A Stand as a Gay Rabbi in North Carolina

I moved to North Carolina about eight months ago after living most of my life either above or well above ...

Jewish Ritual and “The Checklist Manifesto”

Jewish ritual is complicated. Take the most recent ritual we just celebrated, the seder. It has 14 steps, each of which is to ...

Let’s Be Free!

Although the winter in the Northeast was milder than the past few, I still struggle with the season of cold ...

The Week I Eat Along With The Rest of The Tribe

Is there any topic more Jewish than food? I feel like a pretty strong argument can be made that food ...

From Slavery to Freedom, From Grief to Joy

In ten days we will be surrounded by these same boxes in a different house. After nine months of preparation—purging ...

My Mississippi Road Trips

Where I grew up in Connecticut, “road trip” typically meant a trip to New York City or to Boston – both being ...

A Space to be Young, Jewish, and LGBTQ

Last month, 76 teenagers, 9 college-aged CITs, and 18 adult educators from across the country joined together for our largest ...

Mimouna: Taking the End of Passover to Whole New Level

 As Jews around the world conclude the observance of Passover, many will be rushing to pizza parlors to fill their ...