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Shofar? So Good, Y’all!
Sometimes, in a small Southern town, you might not hear the call of the shofar outside of High Holy Day ...
Mars: One Blind Leap for Mankind
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” -Genesis 1:1 … existence on this planet, a rather ...
Bind These Words
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
“Wow! I Didn’t Know I Live in Such a Progressive Country!”
Having traveled frequently to Israel for the last decade, I have many amusing stories of security interviews before boarding flights ...
The ISJL Conquers Texas
At first, it seemed crazy: writing the histories of 55 different Texas Jewish communities for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. The ...
Jews and Anxiety
This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...
The Dangers of Nice
When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...
Hanging in the Air
Numbers 30.2. And Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes concerning the people of Israel, saying, This is the ...
Women’s Voices: The Path to Religious Freedom
Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...
The Maid of Ludomir
A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...
My First “Freedom Ride”
A couple of years ago I learned about a new front in the internal Israeli struggle over religious freedom: gender ...
Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading
As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...