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With the deplorable situation in Santa Clara (the Stanford rape case), there has recently been a media focus on rape. ...

The summer months usher in vacations from school and shul. We tend to lose the weekly Torah portions from Shavuot ...

“Everyone has a different tolerance for complexity.” This is a concept that was introduced to me in anticipation of adopting ...

Proponents and opponents of Partnership Minyans have jointly fostered a single narrative. In that narrative, the only relevant technical halakhic ...

Music and Judaism go hand in hand. Every Shabbat service, lifecycle event, Jewish holiday or Israeli holiday has a specific song ...

Heartbreaking news from the U.S. Violence against gays. The worst mass shooting. Hints of international terrorism.How should my fellow spiritual ...

Like a great many others have over these past few days, I have read the incredibly powerful letter written by ...

Around Hanukkah this past year, my family decided to start our own giving circle. Sitting around the kitchen table, armed with ...

Rabbis are rabbis in no small part by the work they do, pastoral, ritual, social justice, organizational, all informed by ...

I officiate at a lot of weddings. Many of those ceremonies are between a Jewish partner and a partner of ...

Women receiving aliyot (being called to the Torah) in Orthodox synagogues is a relatively new phenomenon. Its most prominent proponents are ...