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The Kavannah for Gay Ordination
On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the legal and spiritual center for Conservative Judaism in America, ...
Learning to Breathe
I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...
Change from the Balcony
Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. When ...
Wicked Son: “Because I knew you…”
We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...
Precious Haroset
I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...
Happy Passover, Y’all!
Sending wishes for joyful seders and a sweet Pesach , whether you’re celebrating in the South, North, East, or West! ...
Timely Growth
Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow is the Director of Jewish Education at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.I am excited. Tonight we ...
Keeping Safe Spaces Safe
“If it doesn’t bring more love into the world, it probably isn’t religion.” The date was October 13, 2010, and ...
Wicked Child
All the Seder-goers I know love reading about the “four children” in the Passover Haggadah. But they all dislike the ...
Spicing Up Your Seder
As a rabbi who also happens to be a mother of small kids, I am often asked for creative ideas ...
Camp Is…
Molly Hott is the director of 92Y Passport NYC, a Jewish overnight camp based in New York City focusing on ...
Passover, Memories, and the Power of Storytelling
It was exactly two years ago that I opened the door to a meeting of the Keshet Beit Midrash for ...
Shopping for a Southern Seder
Shopping for Passover items can be challenging in small Southern towns – and I’m sure there are others around the ...
Transgendered Hearts: Abraham, Sarah and Isaac
The Torah is strewn with transgendered hearts. How can that be true? The Torah, as we know, is not written ...
Kids and Kittens and Keeping Them Inside
Lenore Skenazy is a public speaker and founder of the book and blog Free-Range Kids. Her show “World’s Worst Mom” ...