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The French During the Holocaust and the Complications of History
For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...
Hillel and Shammai
Two weeks ago I posted a piece responding to some articles on patrilineality which provoked several excellent other blog posts ...
The Golden Child
Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...
My Southern Jewish Grandma
Today’s tale of Southern Jewish family, history, and a meaningful road trip comes to us from our summer history intern, ...
“Beautiful Pathologies”: An Ugly Truth?
A recent New York Times online opinion essay, Beautiful Pathologies, got me thinking about the non-profit sector as a whole, ...
Patrilineal Pandemonium: What’s Behind All The Emotion?
Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...
Patrilineal Descent: Why This Rabbi Feels No Angst
This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...
What’s In A (Jewish) Name?
This is another post from one of our terrific summer interns, Caroline Kahlenberg, who completed this piece for us as ...
Patrilineal Jewish Descent: An Open Orthodox Approach
This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...
The Non-Jewish Rabbi? The Problem of Patrilineal Descent
Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual who had been born to a Jewish father and ...
Bad News Jews
It’s something that makes most Jewish people cringe: that moment when, in the midst of some celebrity or political or ...
Give Peace A Chance?
When news broke last week that Israelis and Palestinians had agreed to a new round of peace talks, how did ...