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A Halloween With Jewish Values?

Lately it seems like Halloween has becomes a Rorschach test for how Jews feel about assimilation. As expressed in this eloquent blog ...

Rabbis Without Borders Named As Most Innovative Jewish Program

Rabbis Without Borders is thrilled to be listed in the new Slingshot Guide of The Top 50 Most innovative Jewish ...

The Demise of the Chief Rabbinate

In the spring of 1921, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook became the first Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel ...

Why I Don’t Let My Kids Trick-or-Treat

Below, Rabbi Alana Suskin explains why her family doesn’t trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...

A Whole Lot of Love

What if God took note of every mistake you made and considered it a glorious seed for a profoundly better future? ...

Yitzhak Rabin: Captain, O My Captain!

The yahrzeit for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed with scant notice here a few days ago on the 12th of  ...

Death and Rebirth: A Holocaust Complex

If I lived alone on Planet Laura, I would stop writing about the Pew survey, in protest against unproductive, polarized ...

A Blessing for a Surrogate Mother

“Do you know of a prayer for a surrogate?” The question came over Facebook Chat a few nights ago, sent ...

Our Daughters’ Tallitot

In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...

It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Pew Study and Talented Tenth Judaism

By now, if you are reading this, you undoubtedly have been inundated with punditry about the meaning of the Pew ...

Torah for Siblings

In just a couple weeks, with the help of God and the hospital staff, my family is going to undergo ...

Sex and violence

A friend of mine recently posted a link to this blog post about a screening of an Israeli film titled ...

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