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Yom Partisans 2014

Papers were flying and staples were clamping, stickers were delivered, and DVDs were organized. Another summer, and therefore, another fast ...

Freedom To Celebrate My Religion… and My Sexuality

Pride Month might be over, but celebrating one’s identity is a year long process. This post comes to us from London, ...

Yes, I’m Celebrating a New Jewish Holiday Today

Let’s make a new Jewish holiday.Wait…what?Let’s make a new Jewish holiday. When I opened a recent daily e-mail from The ...

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Asks Me Why I’m Still Here

This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

A Controversial Clarification

This is the first post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

Mothers and Daughters in Shul

I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...

Freedom & Community: It Turns Out America’s Birthday is Pretty LGBT Friendly.

The Fourth of July is one of those official summer milestones. No matter what part of the country you’re from, ...

Stop Trying to Get Everyone On the Same Page

While on the surface, the last two posts on this blog from my colleagues, Laura Duhan Kaplan and Joshua Ratner, are about ...

Tikkun Olam on Juneteenth

Despite the fact that it’s a celebration, I have bittersweet feelings about Juneteenth.Its origins are traced to Union troops arriving ...

Pineapple Coconut Coffee Cake

Like so many of my peers, Jewish summer camp played an integral role in my Jewish identity. It’s where I ...

Is there a MOFA (Muslim Orthodox Feminist Alliance)?

This past week, I listened to a Public Radio interview with Humaira Awais Shahid, a Muslim woman who is a Pakistani ...

Camouflaged Education

How could I try to hide in plain sight? Well if I was well camouflaged I might use any combination ...

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