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If you’ve never lived in the South, you might not be familiar with King Cakes. The brightly colored yellow-green-and-purple treats ...

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

Every year, I laugh out loud at this week’s Torah reading, the crossing of the Red Sea.There Moses stands, so ...

“Are we there yet?!!!” I recall saying this as a child, later enduring it from my kids. With this call ...

Playing an active role in our local communities is a long-standing Southern Jewish tradition. Our community, Temple Israel in Columbus, ...

This blog post was reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily.Thinking of sending your kids to Jewish summer camp (this year or ...

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

I am certain that I am not the only parent who wrestles with the question of how to guide my ...

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

On January 11, 2015, I received rabbinic smicha (ordination) from ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Six years of academic study, ...

My professor asked for students with bad vision to raise their hands.  Out of a sea of 200, maybe 100 ...

“It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years, and for decades to ...

When I was in Israel this fall, I ended up going to a Sephardic synagogue one Shabbat morning, and served ...

Last week, the Israeli ultra-Orthodox paper, HaMevaser, photoshopped German Chancellor Angela Merkel out of a photograph of the solidarity march ...

At my congregation in New Orleans, I teach an adult beginner Hebrew class. There are many different types of students ...