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Post-Passover, These Nice Jewish Girls Want a Burrito Badly…
In our Southern and Jewish blog, we usually focus on topics that are… well, Southern and Jewish. This one might ...
Celebrating Motherhood Jewish Style
With Mother’s Day approaching, let’s take a moment to celebrate mothers.There is no single vision of the Jewish mother. Jewish ...
Doctors and Matchmakers: A More Perfect Union?
Everybody wants the best for their children, especially when it comes to marriage. The choice of a spouse by a ...
Passover and Questions for All
As Passover draws to a close this weekend, I’m thinking about two things: a pizza binge on Friday night and ...
No Sub For You: The Hardest Part of the Passover Pilgrimage
I’m a Florida native. I’ve been described as a fish, spending so much time in the water, swimming and splashing ...
Taking A Stand as a Gay Rabbi in North Carolina
I moved to North Carolina about eight months ago after living most of my life either above or well above ...
Jewish Ritual and “The Checklist Manifesto”
Jewish ritual is complicated. Take the most recent ritual we just celebrated, the seder. It has 14 steps, each of which is to ...
Let’s Be Free!
Although the winter in the Northeast was milder than the past few, I still struggle with the season of cold ...
The Week I Eat Along With The Rest of The Tribe
Is there any topic more Jewish than food? I feel like a pretty strong argument can be made that food ...
From Slavery to Freedom, From Grief to Joy
In ten days we will be surrounded by these same boxes in a different house. After nine months of preparation—purging ...
My Mississippi Road Trips
Where I grew up in Connecticut, “road trip” typically meant a trip to New York City or to Boston – both being ...
A Space to be Young, Jewish, and LGBTQ
Last month, 76 teenagers, 9 college-aged CITs, and 18 adult educators from across the country joined together for our largest ...
Mimouna: Taking the End of Passover to Whole New Level
As Jews around the world conclude the observance of Passover, many will be rushing to pizza parlors to fill their ...
Passover, Shabbat and Rat Poison – Poisoning Ourselves With the Poison Used Against Us
This year the first day of Passover fell on Shabbat. Can we find a deeper connection between Shabbat and Passover?Perhaps we ...
Freedom From and Freedom To
Tonight marks the beginning of Passover. Jews ask over the world will gather to celebrate zman cheirutenu, the season of ...