June 2016
Partnership Minyans and Women’s Aliyot: A Maturing Conversation
Proponents and opponents of Partnership Minyans have jointly fostered a single narrative. In that narrative, the only relevant technical halakhic ...
Summer Hours
Are you one of those people who envies teachers for having summers off? It’s okay…I used to be like you, because ...
Playing Jewish Geography in the Deep South
Jewish geography is a game often played when Jews meet each other for the first time and try to identify ...
In The Small Town South, Honoring Orlando Victims Is An Interfaith Experience
Communities across the nation have been gathering to honor and memorialize the Orlando victims. In Alexandria, Louisiana, community organizers chose ...
Ruth… In Other Words
Last summer, when I joined Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel (ASBI), the local Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, I discovered ...
Neighbors and Strangers
I received a hate call two weeks ago. It came right after I had had the honor of offering an ...
Being Terrified, But Never Terrorized, In an LGBTQ Nightclub
In 2006, at age 23, I went to a gay bar for the first time.I went by myself, because I ...
Let Leaders Lead
It’s about time. That is the overwhelming thought that I have as I read statements from one national Jewish organization ...
From a Rabbi, An Open Letter to People Who Are LGBTQ
It is now four days since the heinous attack in Orlando. In the world of cable news, an eternity has ...
Hate Talk, the Nesting Ground for Orlando
This past Monday, exhausted from the stress of the Orlando tragedy and its reverberations of grief, my husband and I ...