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Last week, two different positions on intermarriage were shared by rabbis who write for this blog. Seth Goldstein wrote in ...

Passover is also a time for us to reflect on the mitzrayim we face today: what are the narrow places from which we must emerge? What are the ways in which we must move toward freedom from transphobia and heterosexism in our families, our workplaces, our Jewish communities? What steps do we need to take to bring us farther along on this journey?

Gentlemen, as Passover approaches, I thought you would appreciate the following advice: To avoid the usual stress of Passover cleaning, ...

I can recall, apparently with terrific inaccuracy, hearing a kindergarten story about an incorrigible feline who poked his nose into ...

Over the next few weeks, the Torah portions we are reading obsess about two terms with which translators struggle mightily. ...

This past weekend, I was involved in an incredibly exhilarating and spiritually uplifting event: Nashir, the intercollegiate Jewish women’s arts ...

What is the best way to usher in the Passover season? Not with handwringing and housecleaning, but with celebration, blessing ...

Monday in the JTA, Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom published an op-ed in which he argued that it was time that Conservative rabbis officiate ...

Last Thursday my family moved to a new house. I love our new house. It’s beautiful, bigger than the old ...

“You were my first Jew, you know,” a friend reminded me the other day.What she meant was, I’m the first ...

I came to Denver for the sunshine, really. I came to get away from the hustle and bustle of the ...

In my childhood, there were few things that the Orthodox rabbis charged with my daily education and my secular anti-religious ...

Judaism is masterful at balancing the playful and the serious, and so much of life is about that balance as well.

Leavened versus unleavened; inside versus outside; Jew versus non-Jew; life versus death. Passover is a festival of absolute binary distinctions that we ritually link together in order to affirm our identity as the people God brought out of Egypt and to pass that identity on to our children. This is the Torah's equivalent of “Jewish Identity for Dummies.”

What draws people to come to religious services?It’s a question that has bedeviled clergy and dedicated lay leaders over the ...