Torah study

Peace Boots

The morning after: Having arrived at Genesis 18:23 with my 9th graders, it seemed like the only thing to do ...

Reflections from an Orthodox Rabbi with a Trans Child

I’m writing this as the father of a transgender child, who feels constricted in a space too narrow to accept ...

The Rebbetzin-Part 2

The following Thursday was Rosh Chodesh. All the women of the town and many visitors filled the kitchen and hallways ...

What Is The Torah We Want To Celebrate Today?

Today we celebrate the holiday of Simhat Torah. Literally meaning “rejoicing in Torah,” the holiday is a culmination both of ...

Yeshiva University Dean Wants to Reverse Gains in Women’s Torah Learning

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...

The Quiet Greatness of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein: One Woman Remembers

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

What!? You Mean Women Can Actually Study Talmud?

Memories of the film, Yentl, came to mind when a number of highly Jewishly educated women invited me to join ...

A Daughter’s Response to “Mincha in the Midwest”

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

Filling the Missing Half of the Sacred Bookshelf

For years I studied and taught Torah, learning and teaching in many settings, including several batei midrash, teacher training programs, ...

Eliezer: The Servant Disciple

When LGBT Jews re-encounter their tradition on their own terms, they can experience spiritual risk, iconoclasm, and reimagined faith. One ...