Rabbi Marshal Klaven

Rabbi Marshal Klaven is Director of Rabbinic Services at the ISJL.


Articles by Rabbi Marshal Klaven

To Plant or Not to Plant Seed: The Truth of Homosexuality in the Bible

[Editor’s Note: This post is not our typical “Southern & Jewish” fare; one of our contributors, Rabbi Marshal Klaven, wanted ...

Leaving Our Mark

On a recent pit stop I made in a rural part of Tennessee, I found an unexpected statement. There, in ...

Blessings & Curses: Moments of Misunderstanding

“Jews are dogs, killers of Christ!”The shouts came from an irate woman as I was walking into one of our ...

Did Jews Invent the Emoticon?

Every week, I am blessed to work with students all across the South as each prepares for his or her ...

Rabbis on the Road

Rabbis and cantors from Central Synagogue in New York are about to hit the Southern road. Again.It’s all part of ...

High Holy Days: Collective Sin, Collective Success

Within the liturgy of Yom Kippur, guilt is assumed to be collective, as we communally recite the sins. That being ...