Tisha B’Av

The great challenge is learning how to honor the past while being able to create a future based on fresh ...

Or Shalom, Vancouver’s East-Side Shul, the synagogue I serve as spiritual leader, is a community of 200 households that has ...

#BlackLivesMatter has generated a wave of rebuke from the American Jewish establishment ever since it published its online Platform on ...

Every person has a different way of dealing with grief; some cry, shout, pray, fast, or choose to celebrate and remember ...

Three friends are having a hard time. One laments being lonely unpartnered. Another tends a spouse with a tough prognosis. ...

On September 10, 1813, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led the U.S. Navy to victory in the pivotal Battle of Lake Erie, which ...

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

I did not fast during Ramadan. But I did somehow experience a little bit of the meaning of the Muslim ...

For those of us engaged in the lifelong passion and struggle of learning Torah with a feminist consciousness, writing it ...

“’…But, mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham to make ...