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“’…But, mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham to make ...

“Sarah” had a pretty average childhood, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish home in New York City with her mother, ...

The Torah portion called Shoftim, the Hebrew word for judges, is always read at the beginning of the new month ...

The campers sit, singing along in the dining hall, while the song leader gathers their spirits and latent energy after ...

“Question authority!” was the mantra of my peer group when I was coming of age in the late ’60s. How ...

Last week, PBS Frontline aired a powerful, thoughtful and educational documentary, Growing up Trans. The families and the children who shared ...

On June 26th, the United States’ LGBT+ community and its allies celebrated a monumental victory when same-sex marriage was deemed ...

She wore a kippah as she opened her gemara. We were a somewhat diverse group–I come from an Orthodox background, ...

Like everyone else, I balance different aspects of my identity: American, Jew, New Yorker, educator, feminist, mother, white, spouse, runner, ...

One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons features a boy in a classroom, hand raised, as he says: “May I ...

A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...

Same sex marriage is now the law of the land. The Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Obergefell v. Hodges ...