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I have always found it difficult to romanticize the tale of right and might that belongs to the Maccabees.  I ...

No matter how much money each of us donated yesterday on what has come to be known as Giving Tuesday, ...

The AIDS epidemic began slowly, but one by one, members of our synagogue, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, as well as many ...

Happy Thanksgiving.Now, let’s get real: Some don’t feel thankful today. We might feel like the turkeys got us down. We might feel burdened ...

 Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...

Last night I participated in my town of Westborough’s Interfaith Thanksgiving. Our program was entitled ‘Welcoming the Stranger’, recalling that ...

Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...

I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...

We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...

I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...

May Peleg-Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first trans chairperson and former owner of Jerusalem’s only queer nightclub “Mikveh” took her ...

It’s over a month now since the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College announced that it would consider intermarried candidates for admission to ...