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Back in August, when I last posted for this blog, I was on my way to visit the URJ Six ...

Cultural anthropologists call it ‘going native’. You find yourself in the field as a participant observer of your host culture ...

Too often rabbis say either what we think people need to hear or what we feel obligated to share.

I’ve been active on Facebook since 2004. Right before I started college, Brandeis University was added to the then-still-exclusive site, ...

My middle kid, Shir, just turned four. This morning, I came into his room to find him naked and tantrumming ...

My favorite pastime in the summer is going to my local town pool. There I can sit in the sun, ...

I spend most of my days and nights highlighting problem areas in Orthodox communities as well as viable solutions, with ...

In March of 2013, I volunteered to swab people’s cheeks for a bone marrow registry drive at a National Council ...

How one woman went from having no idea what Shabbat was to celebrating it every week.

Celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah is a unique and special time in the life of a child, family and community. ...

Six weeks from now when the world and the Jewish People experience another Rosh Hashanah, we will stand before God ...

Over the course of the next few weeks, I’m going to share a series of posts about my reflection on ...

“Are you an angry feminist?”I was recalling an awkward but critical discussion I had once had, to Andrea Hodos a ...

Last night marked the beginning of the holiday of Tu B’Av. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone. ...

When I was nine years old, my family sat me down to watch the landmark documentary Eyes on the Prize. ...