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How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2
Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...
What Happens When Our Heroines Fail Us?
One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss
Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...
Seeking Justice for Leo Frank
The sanctuary of Temple Kol Emeth is completely filled. Judges, lawyers and rabbis who will address the crowd sit on ...
To Feel More Connected, Get Physically Closer to the Torah
When you see an adorable baby, a stunning gem, or an intricately illustrated medieval Hagaddah, don’t you feel a yearning to ...
Yeshiva University Dean Wants to Reverse Gains in Women’s Torah Learning
My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...
Finding Helen Keller’s Thank You-Note to a Southern Rabbi
“The birds are gone. The life that throbbed through tree, bush and grass is stilled. The ground is frozen so ...
A Tale of Two Tragedies
Israel is the most uplifting place in the world, and on my trip there last week I felt the usual ...
Pilgrimage to the High Holidays
My husband and I are on a pilgrimage to Mt. Baker.Yes, a pilgrimage. There’s nothing else to call it.From our ...
Reframing Worries About the Future
As a parent of young adults, I often talk with my peers about the unexpected paths our kids are choosing. ...
G*d of the Gaffes
When Jon Stewart left his post tonight he left behind a legacy of fake reporting real news with an eye ...
We Have Met the Enemy
On September 10, 1813, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led the U.S. Navy to victory in the pivotal Battle of Lake Erie, which ...