Partner Blogs
A Letter to my Younger Self Series: MJ
Part of a series in which members of the Keshet community write letters to their younger selves.
Summer Vacation – Gateway to Teshuvah
I offer my present lightness of being as Torah, the Torah of embracing our fullest selves, reverent and irreverent impulses equally inspired by the divine.
Summertime Social Justice
Before school's back, use some staycation time for tikkun olam
Jewish Sephardi Wedding Recipes and Traditions
A recipe for masapan (marzipan) and details on Sephardi wedding customs.
I’ll Pray for You
We seek the unique and disparage the regular, but we have it backward; it is in the every day and the repetitious, that we find divinity
Kosher Money?
Judaism obligates us to call out our fellow’s unethical behavior and encourage them to change it.
Is the Torah a Patriarchal Text?
My mind and heart raced. I had never noticed gender disparity in something as simple as household chores. What else had I missed?
Humility and How to Get Some
Do we each have more to learn, things we can do better?
House Rules… What to Wear, How to Act
When I enter a home that is nut-free due to allergies, I would never dream of bringing in a Snickers bar.
The Complex Nature of Intersectionality
Writer Erika K. Davis reflects on the Chicago Dyke March and provides perspective as a Queer Jew of Color.
Intersectionality and the Limits of Ideology
The limitations of the teacher I encountered as a young student don’t represent an entire segment of Jewish thinking.
On July 4th: What Is Next, America?
This time last year, I was excited about America...