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Every March, the ISJL (a very sports-centric Southern and Jewish office) holds a tournament of champions: Mensch Madness.We get in ...

Preferred Gender Pronouns:  a phrase that confuses people who haven’t heard it before. To many, pronouns seem fixed. How could ...

I’m thinking a lot about Shabbat candle lighting nowadays, in part because I’m awaiting the birth of my first grandchild ...

It was not until she was already on her way to adulthood, that singer Sarah Aroeste discovered the connection between ...

I remember asking, just before the photographer took the picture, “Should we smile, or look serious?” My rabbi quipped, “I ...

I am what you might call an alternative peace activist. The return to the biblical heartland of Israel — Judea and ...

On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.

When I was growing up the common wisdom was, if possible, to avoid conversations of religion and politics around the dinner ...

There are certain parts of being a Jewish professional that only other people in “the business” will understand. Buzz words ...

Yes, it’s true. The Chief Rabbi of Uganda has been elected to parliament in his home country. A remarkable feat ...

“Which Jewish summer camp is right for my child?”Day or overnight, traditional or specialty, religious or culturally Jewish…  With so ...

In the last weeks’ Torah readings (Terumah, Tetzaveh and Ki Tissa), our sacred myth has amplified the problem of human longing for ...

We all have certain styles and habits, skills and abilities. In teams, social circles, family units, workplaces, etc., these differences ...

A few years ago I was a first-time guest on a news radio show on Detroit’s National Public Radio (NPR) ...

How Jewish is Bernie Sanders? This question rose to the surface after Sanders’ historic victory in the New Hampshire Democratic ...