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Back to School: What Does Your LGBTQ Jewish Lesson Plan Look Like?
With Labor Day in our rear-view window, summer is officially over. Now that school is back in session, here are ...
Agreement vs. Acceptance
As a Jewish woman raised in a Conservative home, a Reform synagogue, and who has been Modern Orthodox since the ...
The Four M’s
Does the synagogue you attend speak your language? If you are not a synagogue goer, might you go if the ...
Inclusion: Do We Really Really Want You?
There is an old rabbinic tale of Hillel and Shammai, the rabbinic leaders of their generation. A would-be convert comes ...
The OTHER Nadiv Educator
As the summer drew to a close, I took a picture with the other Nadiv Educator at my camp. He’s ...
The Rectangle that Ate My Life – and Yours
In the beginning, when our son was small, we didn’t buy him hand-held Nintendo games, or the TV game consoles, ...
Reflecting to Look Forward
The summer Torah portion, Matot, opens with Moses giving the following instructions to the Israelite tribal heads: “If a man ...
A Jewish Mom and Her Daughter Talk LGBTQ Inclusion: Part II
You’ll love this mother-daughter team who have joined the inclusion efforts at Sha’aray Shalom! Jodi Tolman and her daughter Chloe participated in Keshet’s Boston Leadership Summit, putting their commitment to ...
An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day
Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...
Jewish Women Deserve Better
Five months ago, I wrote about my struggles as a newly married woman in adjusting to the observance of Taharat ...
Teens & Screens Part 3: Who Sees What Online
The following is the third in a three-part series on how to help safely navigate the world of social media ...
“It’s The Thought That Counts” Isn’t Good Enough
“‘It’s the thought that counts’ is not a Jewish concept. What you do matters more than what you just think ...
A Jewish Mom and Her Daughter Talk LGBTQ Inclusion
You’ll love this mother-daughter team who have joined the inclusion efforts at Sha’aray Shalom! Jodi Tolman and her daughter Chloe participated in Keshet’s Boston Leadership Summit, putting their ...
Give Heed to the Bark/Meow/Cluck of the Shofar
Apparently yesterday was “National Dog Day.”I had not heard of National Dog Day before, but it was created 10 years ...
Seek Stories, Not Stereotypes
There’s one page I follow obsessively on Facebook: Humans of New York.Brandon, the photographer and author behind HONY, approaches total ...