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Maimonides’ Home and My Grandmother’s Song
Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...
The Shofar Is Calling; Will You Answer?
Each shofar has a unique undulating shape and trumpeting sound. The sound may be low and haunting or bold and ...
Parashat Shoftim: Building a Just Society
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Commanded to Dis/Connect
A few weeks ago, I celebrated the marriage of two dear friends. Along with the biological and chosen families of ...
An Electrifying Altar
A few summers ago, on a trip through Samaria, Israel, a passage in this week’s Torah portion jumped out of ...
Team Jewish
Jews get lumped together a lot. Polls refer to “the Jewish vote.” We hear about the “Jewish response.” Labels of Jewish are ...
What (and How) The Simpsons Can Teach Us All
If you’ve got nothing to do for the next twelve consecutive days, and don’t need any sleep. starting tonight you ...
I am a Queer Activist Because I am a Jew
I spend my workdays gathering and leveraging financial resources for grassroots community organizers and artists working at the intersection of ...
If We Remove Our Masks, We Have a Chance to Save the World
These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...
An Open Letter to My Bais Yaakov Education
To My Bais Yaakov Education,I thought I knew what I was getting into when I made the jump from a ...
Emerging from Hiding
There’s a reason you haven’t seen me online much this summer. I went underground to avoid the graphic images of ...
Cross-Cultural Parenting: Materialism vs Relationship
My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us ...
Hot ShoTz and Tefillahpalooza, Part Deux
Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?”The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask people ...
Silencing Abominable Language: Parashat Re’eh
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...