2013

Now that your kids are home from camp, many of you are facing a new dilemma: should campers and their ...

I believe that pulpit rabbis have an obligation to frame issues of the day in a moral lens even when ...

Many people ask me, “What’s a nice guy like you doing in a field like this?” By which they mean: ...

In honor of Yom Kippur, this week we bring you two queer takes on The Book of Jonah. Tomorrow, poet ...

In 2009, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, with a simple, moving speech. He spoke of the challenge of ...

Wishing y’all a year full of health, happiness, and hope, wherever you live! 

In my novel,  Margot , I reimagine Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, having survived the war and come to Philadelphia where ...

A couple of years ago I was walking to synagogue with my two boys on the morning of Rosh Hashanah, ...

cross-posted from Rabbi Gurevitz’ blog, ‘Raise it Up’   One of the images found in the High Holiday liturgy is ...

A few weeks ago, in a parking lot in Montreal, with hip-hop music blaring from oversized speakers, and lanes delineated ...