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“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 ...

These are exciting times for Jewish social justice.  This past week, an interfaith group of ministers, led in part by the ...

Believe me, I wish I did, but I have no choice but to dance. It chose me. It is amazing ...

For years I studied and taught Torah, learning and teaching in many settings, including several batei midrash, teacher training programs, ...

There is a myth that Jewish music is “always in a minor key,” and often echoes themes of pieces like ...

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,” says the Psalmist, “that I may enter and acknowledge the Holy One.”Throughout our ...

Every January I reflect on the lessons of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his good friend Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its ...

We use the phrase “transplants” often down here—referring to the “Yankees” who for one reason or another found themselves down South. ...

Long ago, legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan sang in his gravelly tones,  that “the times, they are a-changing.” He was a truth teller ...

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