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Voting for Our Future: How LGBTQ Jews can Support Others

The Jewish New Year is a time of personal reflection. During the High Holidays, we reflected on the past year, ...

When a presidential candidate is misinformed about late term abortion

In recent weeks there has been a great deal said by presidential candidate, Donald Trump, that has caused deep upset ...

Feeding While Fasting – A New Beginning

Across the world yesterday or today, Jews celebrate Simchat Torah, the conclusion of the Festival of Sukkot. Simchat Torah is ...

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RabbiCareers.com launched this month making it easier for a congregation, organization, or individual to find a rabbi for their needs. ...

That Time the Lulav Made Me Cry

I love the holiday season – I even love a three day yontif (yom tov, or holiday).  With the exception ...

A Moonstone for the Feast of Tabernacles: Celebrating Sukkot as a part of a Jewish and Queer Community

The theory of a sukkah feels queer to me – a temporary, self-built space for the purpose of shelter, but ...

Simchat Torah… With a Little More Torah This Time

Many of my most formative experiences and Jewish-identity-markers have had two things in common: they were highly competitive, and involved ...

Sukkot and Simchat Torah: Resources and Reflections

This year we’ve rounded up a menu of our past Sukkot and Simchat Torah posts for you to explore. Below you’ll find resource guides, rabbinical ...

Wind and Rain, Resilience and Abundance

Earlier this week in the Pacific Northwest we waited for a storm that wasn’t.A big storm of heavy rain and ...

Living With Death

Death is a problem. It is death that seems to suck the meaning out of life. If it is all ...

Reflections on Liturgy of the High Holy Days

We spent the whole morning of prayers during the High Holidays on our pleas for forgiveness from God, and our ...

7 Global Jews To Enrich Your Sukkot Celebration

At Sukkot the custom of Ushpizin, offers us a chance, to be as welcoming and as inclusive as we would ...

Coming Out for my Transgender Daughter

There it sat and it had sat for a very long time. We felt exhausted, vulnerable, and full of anxiety. ...

Yom Kippur Is Important. The Day After Is Even More So.

We sat in synagogue most, if not all, of the day. We didn’t eat. We thought about the ways we missed ...

Seven Sukkot Themes To Spice Up Your Sukkah

Sukkot is almost here! It’s our week to cram friends and family into the sukkah, whether for short services and ...

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