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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 ...

One of our favorite bloggers Jennifer “CubanRueben” Stempel has done it again! She has come up with a wonderful holiday ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Every year at this time, from the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul into Tishrei, my mind vaguely registers that ...