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The Power of Allies
The excitement in the halls was palpable. Was the enthusiasm because of the record-breaking number of attendees (1,000), the new venue ...
The Importance of Going to a Jewish Camp
This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. When I was seven years old, I ...
Rambam and Medicine
Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...
From the South to Spain: Surprising Jewish Connections
This blog post comes from Linnea Hurst, who interned in the ISJL’s Community Engagement department last summer. I wasn’t raised ...
A Judaism That Works For All
Last week my Facebook feed was busy lining up responses to two online articles that got a lot of professional ...
5 Reasons Parents Should Send Their Children With Disabilities to Jewish Camp
This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. I must confess. When I first started ...
Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: Love Should be about Inclusion
There is no doubt that love is in the air—as a hopeless romantic, Valentine’s Day is a holiday I always ...
The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case: How One Case Could Change Everything
Rabbi (to be) Ari Naveh recently shared how he balances the line between being a gay rabbi—and a rabbi who ...
The Inhumanity of “Affordable Care”
A few days ago, the distraction of actual governance in Washington was the report on Employment, the economy, and the ...
My Journey from the Closet to the Pulpit
Inspired by Ari Naveh’s reflections on joining the rabbinate as a gay man, Elianna Yolkut looks back on her own ...
Wrestling with the Ethics of the Sochi Olympics
With the Sochi Olympics starting today, Rachel Gurevitz takes to the Rabbis Without Borders blog to examine the anti-gay laws currently in place ...
Jewish Disability Awareness Month
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), which brings a topic that is very important to us at the Foundation ...