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A Proposal at a Pride Parade: Part II
This month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we are sharing love stories. We’re kicking things off with a two part ...
It’s Jewish Disability Awareness Month!
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM)! JDAM is “a unified initiative to raise awareness and support efforts to foster ...
What’s an Interfaith Rabbi?
Last week The New Republic ran a story saying that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the seminary of the American Jewish ...
Where Have All the Women Gone?
I subscribe to a variety of listservs, Facebook groups, and news outlets across a wide range of the religious spectrum, ...
Will You Travel Through Space and Time with Me?: A Proposal at a Pride Parade
In honor of Valentine’s Day we are sharing love stories this month. We’re kicking things off with a two part ...
Our Ten Most Popular Posts of 2014
With the first month of 2015 behind us, we thought we’d share our most popular blog posts of the past ...
For Afro-Yiddish Performer, the Past is not Past
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past…”When William Faulkner wrote these words in Requiem for a Nun, I’m pretty certain he ...
Are Synagogues Outsourcing Tikkun Olam?
These are exciting times for Jewish social justice. This past week, an interfaith group of ministers, led in part by the ...
Real Religious Differences
Every year, I laugh out loud at this week’s Torah reading, the crossing of the Red Sea.There Moses stands, so ...
Jewish Summer Camp: The Questions You Should Be Asking
This blog post was reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily.Thinking of sending your kids to Jewish summer camp (this year or ...
The World of Jewish Music
There is a myth that Jewish music is “always in a minor key,” and often echoes themes of pieces like ...
Not Seen and Not Heard
Last week, the Israeli ultra-Orthodox paper, HaMevaser, photoshopped German Chancellor Angela Merkel out of a photograph of the solidarity march ...