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A new site, TransTorah, was just launched, offering resources for trans and transitioning Jews along with divrei Torah, and resources ...

From today’s emailbox:When you think of G_d, do you think of an “entity” (I know it’s not the right word, ...

Check out this fascinating article in The Guardian about all of the letters that people send to God, often addressed ...

Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

Salon is featuring a question about someone who doesn’t want to let shomer Shabbat people into her building: Dear Cary, ...

I’m kind of hardcore about separation of church and state. Most of the religious things that people want to bring ...

In Denmark, a bill was proposed which would prohibit the circumcision of any men before the age of 15. Ynet ...

A reader wrote in, asking me to post this article, which is the most complete account I’ve found so far ...

Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

I’m a big fan of religious controversy.  I like it when people stand up and say things that make any ...

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...