Jewish History
Rabbi Nevins Reflects
This week on MyJewishLearning, Rabbi Daniel Nevins reflects on his role in the Conservative movement’s recent debate on homosexuality and ...
Conservative Rabbis Explain Themselves
This week’s Jewish Week has two letters from rabbis on the Conservative movement’s Law Committee, explaining their recent votes on ...
Rushkoff Responds
In discussing the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question, I cited Douglas Rushkoff’s writing on business innovation and noted his book ...
Boston Study
In this week’s Forward, Bethamie Horowitz looks at the recent Boston Community Study that showed that 60% of children in ...
Reading Jimmy Carter
I just started reading Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, which has been garnering serious criticism in the ...
The Orthodox Respond
Thanks to Canonist for calling attention to the Orthodox institutions that responded to last week’s decision by (some in) the ...
More Ideas, More Rushkoff
Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...
An American Problem
The last couple of days we’ve been lamenting the unfortunate state of the “Jewish Idea” — original thoughts, concepts, visions, ...
Questions & Comments
Over at Jewschool, folks are commenting on Jay’s MJL post about the Conservative movement’s decision yesterday. Is there anyone out ...
Gay History in the Making, I Guess
Today was the day that we’d worked for all these years: finally the doors of the Conservative movement have been ...
My Statement
STATEMENT BY JAY MICHAELSON, DIRECTOR OF NEHIRIM (A NATIONAL JEWISH GAY & LESBIAN ORGANIZATION), FROM PRESS CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT ...
Responsa on Homosexuality
As expected, the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards announced today that it has accepted multiple, conflicting responsa ...