Partner Blogs

Ten years ago I got that call. My dear friend called to tell me she was pregnant. I wish my ...

Several years ago, I was at a chain drugstore in Jackson, Mississippi, running some last-minute errands as I prepared to ...

What question will guide your New Year’s resolutions this year? What will be the focus of your self-improvement plan?Maybe it’s ...

“Merry Christmas,” says this pulpit rabbi and co-chair of the Jewish Renewal movement. Regardless of our theologies and beliefs, the message ...

Matzah Brei: It’s a dish most people associate with Passover, thanks to one obvious ingredient— but I love it anytime. ...

I’ll be honest. I am both fascinated and horrified by many of the daily updates in these still early stages ...

I had been selected for a 10-day workshop at Yad Vashem for Jewish educators and planned to arrive early and ...

Dear Max Chan Zuckerberg, Welcome to this world! Now that you are old enough to read this letter, your father ...

“You have to watch this show.” A friend told me. “There is a woman rabbi character. It is called “Transparent” ...

One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...

In the last few weeks, we have seen the ugliness of racism in politics, with campaigners using prejudice and fear ...

As a rabbi on staff at the ISJL, I travel around the South quite a bit. Recently, I had the ...

People want our tzedakah dollars. We are all deluged by solicitations, whether through phone calls, online requests, mailed letters, or ...

With the new Star Wars movie premiering this week, social media has gone into full spoiler prevention mode. People are ...

Hi there! Remember me? Just last year, I was traveling all over the South serving wonderful communities as an ISJL ...