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Wrestling with the Ethics of the Sochi Olympics
The more I read and learn about what has been happening in Russia, the more I am afraid for its ...
From Silence and Lies to Out and Proud
Silence and lies. These are your choices when you’re in the closet. When your friends start talking about crushes, hot ...
My Journey from the Closet to the Pulpit
Hear from more LGBTQ clergy, including Ariel Naveh, on the Keshet blog. Reading Ariel Naveh’s two-part story on the Keshet blog about ...
How to Be the Jewish Daughter of a Cancer Patient
Today is World Cancer Day, a day when people worldwide are focused on cancer, to encourage its prevention, detection, and ...
Signing in Solidarity
This piece was submitted on Friday, January 31, 2014. The event took place on Sunday, January 26.—When a couple gets ...
The What-if Moment
There’s no point pretending this blog post is going to be about camp or summer, especially summer. Montreal in February ...
Everyone Wants to Be Jewish. Why Stop Them?
Judaism is in fashion in the U.S.—and in Canada, too.Non-Jews are happy to join Jewish families. Christian communities want to explore ...
Am I a Gay Rabbi, or Am I a Rabbi Who Is Gay?
Part Two of a two-part story of a gay rabbinical student in the Reform Movement. Yesterday Ari shared his place in ...
A Feminist Ryan Gosling for the Shomer-Shabbos Crowd
Inspired by the ubiquitous Venmo ads on the NYC Subway, comedian and former yeshiva student Eitan Levine came up with ...
Ari the Big Gay Rabbinical Student: On Navigating Two Challenging Identities
Deciding to become a rabbi is a momentous decision. For a gay man, the decision is even more fraught. In ...
Drake & YOUR Multicultural Bar or Bat Mitzvah
Drake’s recent SNL skit (see below), perhaps unwittingly but then again perhaps not, highlighted how a bar or bat mitzvah ...
Women, Tefillin, and Double Standards
I am a person who puts on, or “lays,” tefillin (phylacteries). I happen to be female. While my gender, to ...