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When I was writing my memoir, which is sort of a chronicle of all my failed love relationships, each morning when ...

As a Jewish professional, I am always looking for ways to connect Judaism to our lives. “Professional” Jews know that ...

 Last week, Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Private first class Bradley Manning, made headlines. Her announcement that she would be living ...

As the Semisonic song goes, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” And as we wrap up our ...

A few weeks ago I was asked to give a keynote address at a middle school. My ever-proud Jewish mother ...

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...

Two weeks ago I posted a piece responding to some articles on patrilineality which provoked several excellent other blog posts ...

Looking back on the past few months, I wouldn’t call it a “cruel summer.” Nor would I call it “the ...

This week, The Jewish Daily Forward featured our very own Rachel Jarman Myers in a piece about her work sharing ...

This summer, Habonim Dror Camp Na’aleh did something unprecedented at Jewish camp – we had a transgender bunk counselor. At Camp Na’aleh ...

I am sick of hearing about the VMAs and Miley Cyrus. Yup – she got on stage in a latex ...

Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...

The call comes in the middle of the night.“Your nephew’s got it in his head that he wants to have ...

August 28, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have ...

I’m advocating a new angle on Heshbon Nefesh, ‘soul’s accounting’, that we do in preparation to the High Holidays of ...