January 2017

At This Point in Time

Last week, all around the country, people stayed awake late into the night and took to the streets.The U.S Department of ...

Cornerstone Alumni Grantee: Building a Shabbat Community

The Foundation for Jewish Camp is dedicated to building leaders and amplifying Jewishness. While the Cornerstone Fellowship is about building ...

Trust Your Gut — But Verify

Near the beginning of the movie Men in Black, Will Smith‘s character is being tested to see if he has ...

Calling Me a LibTarded B—– Won’t Help

Recently someone called me a libtarded b—- in the course of a Facebook discussion regarding the president’s executive order reinstating ...

Catching Our Breath

This Shabbat we celebrate the New Moon of Shevat, the beginning of the Hebrew month in which the world begins ...

Jews and Muslims Coming Together in Minnesota

The final process of converting to Judaism is to meet with the beit din (a rabbinic “court” of three learned Jews, ...

Raise Game: Jewish and LGBTQ Heroes

“Raise game.” When I began rabbinical school, a friend of mine who was already ordained offered me these two words ...

When Running Out of Prayer Books Is A Good Thing

Recently I had the privilege of participating in the Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference in Natchez, MS, organized by the ...

The Torah of the Stateless and the Marginalized

What does it mean to be part of a social change movement?I recently was privileged to learn first-hand one way ...

Bethany’s Brilliant (Mississippi Delta) Bat Mitzvah

Late this past fall, I received a special invitation in my inbox. Surrounded by bright pink, blue and yellow polka dots, ...