November 2015

Is The Jewish Community In America Actually In Crisis?

A month after its publication, the “Statement on Jewish Vitality,” signed by a number of leading Jewish communal figures, has ...

Black, Female and Almost a Rabbi

When I was 6 years old I told my parents I was going to become a rabbi. I was blessed ...

Is It Too Early To Teach My Daughter To Be A Feminist?

My 15-month-old daughter has a game she likes to play. She enjoys walking up to my husband while he is ...

Hineini: 10 Years of Coming Out in Jewish Spaces

A dozen or so years ago, I was working as an educator at a large Conservative synagogue in the suburbs ...

A Most Precious Resource

We came to the Laxmi Narayan Hindu Mandir (Temple) in Surrey, Canada, expecting to see unfamiliar religious practices. But, as ...

Enjoying Imperfection

When my husband and I were house hunting 16 years ago, we visited a house that was so cluttered, even the ...