December 2013

How I Learned to Do More Than Just “Accept” Same-Sex Relationships

I am not quite sure when I first started to understand the notion of homosexuality. When Billie Jean King was ...

Does The Jewish Community Need A Nelson Mandela Today?

World leaders today have assembled to mourn the death of Nelson Mandela. As tributes are paid to Mandela’s towering legacy ...

“Only” Christmas Here? Bah Humbug, Billboard!

While recently driving through one of those long rural stretches that blur the lines between Midwest and South, I saw ...

Mandela and Messianic Time

In less than a week, so much has been said to eulogize Nelson Mandela. Together with Frederik Willem de Klerk, ...

Oh, how I wish I were going to the JOFA Conference!

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with conferences since the first GA I attended as a Hillel delegate while I was ...

Cheesin’ For a Reason!

Be it brie, mozzarella or feta, I, like just about everyone, love cheese.There are so many reasons to love cheese, ...

Jewish Peoplehood for the Millennial Generation

On the eighth night of Hanukkah our synagogue’s young adult group hosted an event in collaboration with the Denver Jewish ...

“Kosher Soul” Shabbat

If you could only cook three dishes for Shabbat dinner what would they be?This was the question we posed to ...

My First JOFA Conference!

I’ve never been to a JOFA conference before. For four years, all through college,  I heard from friends living in ...

Lithuania’s Past and Present

In my last blog post, I recounted the background of Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz, who has been reporting on troubling manifestations of ...