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High Heels and Aching Feet: Politics as Usual

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” – ...

Mock Jewish Divorce

It’s become almost a cliche program at American Jewish summer camps. The mock Jewish wedding teaches kids, through an interactive ...

Southern & Jewish: Pride, or Prejudice?

There’s an article that’s been going around a lot this past week, about being Jewish in the South. Naturally, the ...

The Real Flavor of the Streets

There’s a district in Vilnius called Užupis, which has seceded from the rest of Lithuania and established its own republic. To ...

Entering the Holy of Holies

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Live High Holidays Services Online for 2012

Looking to go to services in the convenience of your own home?  Check out OurJewishCommunity.org, which brings a contemporary Jewish ...

Tachlis of Inclusion: Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin and the Israel Center for Conservative Judaism

With the High Holidays approaching, and major spiritual heavy lifting to be done, it’s an especially important time of year ...

How Deep Are Our Thoughts?

For our first anniversary, my wife and I went on a trip through the Southwest, seeing Sedona, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, ...

Illusions and Remembering

I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...

Obligation, Faith, and Service After the Storm

I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...

Senior Year: APs, College Prep, and Coming Out in My Orthodox High School

  When I tell my friends who are not Orthodox that I’m out of the closet and attending a Modern ...

Igniting the Spark of Love

During the Hebrew month of Elul, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, a number of bloggers are ...

A Yiddishist in Vilnius

I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...

Eighteen Twenty-Two

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

I’m Watching Tennis Instead

It’s the week between the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention and I’ve checked out. That’s not usually ...

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