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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 ...

Open to Me the Gates of Righteousness: Breaking Down Gender Binaries

“Open to me the gates of righteousness,” says the Psalmist, “that I may enter and acknowledge the Holy One.”Throughout our ...

Is There Such a Thing as a Feminist Dress Code?

In December, the New York Times printed an article about the new fashion guidelines for state legislators in Montana. In ...

An Orthodox Mother’s Response to Homophobia in Her Community

Last month, an article entitled to Warning: Hollywood’s Coming For Your Home and Children! by Robert C. Avrech appeared in the Jewish ...

God’s Abortive Assassination Attempt

Parshat Shmot which we read this week contains one of the most bizarre incidents in all of the Torah. By ...

“Selma” A Jewish Take

This week I had the privilege of viewing an early showing of Selma , a movie about the historical events that ...

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