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Can Non-Jews Receive Synagogue Honors?
Being called to the Torah for an aliyah and leading certain prayers are, among other synagogue rituals, generally reserved for Jews.
How Hasidic Wisdom Can Change Your Relationship to the Natural World
Hasidic wisdom offers an alternative to the dominant Jewish paradigm which places human needs at the center of our relationship with the earth and its creatures.
How Hasidic Wisdom Can Improve Your Life
Hasidism is a philosophy of devotion, not self-help. But that doesn't mean it won't improve your life.
What a Convert to Judaism Needs to Know
Studying for conversion is not merely about acquiring information, but the development of a new identity.
Four Steps For Changing Your Life in the New Year
A change expert and rabbi-to-be offers advice on how to make change happen.
A Refugee from Laos Finds a Home in the Jewish Community
What Holocaust survivors taught this refugee from Laos.
The Complex Nature of Intersectionality
Writer Erika K. Davis reflects on the Chicago Dyke March and provides perspective as a Queer Jew of Color.
Intersectionality and the Limits of Ideology
The limitations of the teacher I encountered as a young student don’t represent an entire segment of Jewish thinking.
Honor Non-Jewish Parents of Jewish Kids
Once the interfaith family exists, alienating families that are interfaith but committed to raising Jewish children is not good for Judaism.