Partner Blogs
How Will You Mark Pride Month?
Every June people across the world celebrate LGBTQ Pride. Take a look at some of our resources and prepare for ...
Is there a MOFA (Muslim Orthodox Feminist Alliance)?
This past week, I listened to a Public Radio interview with Humaira Awais Shahid, a Muslim woman who is a Pakistani ...
Flying the Friendly Skies
I’m what you would call a reluctant business traveler. While I am the director of the Education Department of the ...
Understanding the Villains; or, Stranger than Fiction
Donna Tartt, the author of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner The Goldfinch , was once told by Ken Kesey, the ...
Camouflaged Education
How could I try to hide in plain sight? Well if I was well camouflaged I might use any combination ...
I’m Proud because Being Different is Not Just OK – It’s Incredible
At the young age of 5, I started what would be a decade of denial. I should’ve known I was ...
Leah Goldberg, Me, and the Search for a Title for my New Book
There’s a Jewish story you may know that includes the refrain: “You never know.” In one section of it, a ...
From The Collection: Images from Freedom Summer
From my adopted hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, I’ve been thinking about Freedom Summer.Now that we are a month away from ...
It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Family History Is?
I’ve daydreamt for more than a decade about what a day like tomorrow—publication date for my debut novel A Replacement Life—might ...
Talking about Rabbis
Yesterday, during preparations for the graduation ceremony for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, I caught a glimpse of the glow on the ...
Camp-moon!
There always was the honeymoon. Then people started taking babymoons—a trip when they were pregnant, before their world was turned ...
What Does It Mean to Have Pride in One’s Identities?
It is September 5, 2010. I am in my dorm room at Tufts University, having just arrived to campus a ...
A Recipe for Judaism
What makes a fish taste Jewish?For some, the immediate answer will be pickling and a former home in freshwater. For ...
The Tupelo Tornado, Temple, and Church: A Story of Friendship
Today’s guest post comes from Bob M. Schwartz, a member of Temple B’nai Israel in Tupelo, Mississippi. His thoughts can ...
Teach Your Children Well
“The world we build tomorrow is born in the experiences we give our children today.”Our Jewish tradition is centered on ...