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It’s that time of year. The holidays are on my mind, and in my heart.The sound of the Shofar for ...

I always forget, in between trips, how stunningly beautiful Israel is. When I return, it is like opening a favorite ...

What’s “new” for this historian? Well, at the moment, we are in the process of updating the Mississippi entries for ...

In the great story of humanity there has always been the forces that compel us to assimilate amongst each other ...

Today, as we dwell in this reflective month of Elul and prepare for the high holidays ahead, we also recall ...

This summer the UJA-Federation of New York hosted a Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement, a conference convened to discuss ideas of LGBTQ ...

Change is an inevitable part of our lives. Most changes, however, happen to us from the outside: we age, we ...

The rabbis of the Talmud have taught that the shofar must be blown with a particular intention: to sound like ...

We rabbis often lament about how many issues divide our people. We pray differently, we keep kosher differently, we talk ...

As students return to college campuses, now is a great time to be thinking about how LGBTQ inclusive your Hillel ...

It’s strange but true that being a woman made me uniquely positioned to write my historical novels. Growing up a ...

Last week our Boston community sat down for a conversation with Ayala Katz, mother of one of the victims of the ...

I am emotionally fatigued by all the heartbreak of this past summer. I am drained by the tragedy of the ...

From black-eyed pea hummus spiked with homemade horseradish harissa to matzoh-meal fried chicken cooked in shmaltz, to peach noodle kugels ...

I’ll start with a confession. After writing these monthly blogs about summer camp for almost two years now, I still ...