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Celebrate, Israel, Jewish Thought, Passover, Seder, Study
The Promise of the Promised Land
In the Bible, possession of the Land of Israel is tied to moral behavior.
JOFA's Torch, Live, Women & Feminism
Do We Really Need the JOFA Conference?
They overflow the curbs of Eastern Parkway. With their black hats, beards, and suits, they are an inverse image of ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Love Without Criticism
“Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love…Peace unaccompanied by rebuke is not peace.” —Genesis Rabbah 54:3 Find more Wise Fridays ...
Wise Fridays: Grabbing at the World
A baby enters the world with hands clenched, as if to say, “The world is mine; I shall grab it.” ...
Celebrate, Purim, Rabbis Without Borders
We Don’t Really Talk About Purim
Before we crash headlong into the various celebratory, lighthearted posts about Purim, I want to draw your attention to something: ...
Every Aspect of Myself
A Keshet Shabbaton participant on identity, coming out, and finding places to belong
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: Even Gnats and Flies
“The Rabbis said: Even though you may think them superfluous in this world, creatures such as flies, bugs, and gnats ...
Jewish Thought, Science and Ecology, Study
Urbanization and Land Use: A Biblical Model
The design of the Levites’ urban settlements featured open spaces and regional integration.
A Wandering People
Today's global migrants, like our peripatetic forebears, are suspended in the precarious place between a difficult past and a hopeful future.