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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 ...

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