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Why I Drove 10 Hours to Visit This Jewish Deli
Abe’s Deli in Scranton, Pennsylvania will always feel like home.
Celebrate, Eat, Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah Food
Rosh Hashanah Customs
How to celebrate the Jewish New Year at home.
Gender & Sexuality, JOFA's Torch, Pray
An Orthodox-Friendly, Egalitarian Bencher: Something Old, Something Very New
With great fanfare, David Zvi Kalman and Joshua Schwartz announced their production of a new, “egalitarian and queer-inclusive” bencher, Seder ...
The Pathos of Exodus: What Hollywood Blockbusters Have To Do With Ferguson and Giving Tuesday
My boys are getting psyched for the upcoming release of the blockbuster Exodus: Gods And Kings . Exodus promises to ...
Beliefs & Practices, Gender & Sexuality
Menstruation and “Family Purity” (Taharat Ha-Mishpacha)
An act of will is required to turn our thoughts back to the sacred after a bodily event has focused our attention on the very physical here-and-now.
Celebrate, JOFA's Torch, Live, Purim, Women & Feminism
Women’s Megillah Reading in a Small Town–Some Tips From Our 5th Year
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — we are the capital city of the Commonwealth. No, Pennsylvania’s capital is not in Philadelphia. Several years ago ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Is Separate Seating Offensive?
An English MP named Jim Fitzpatrick was invited to a constituent’s wedding last night, and he and his wife attended, ...
Disability, Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Federations Get Serious About LGBTQ Inclusion
This summer the UJA-Federation of New York hosted a Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement, a conference convened to discuss ideas of LGBTQ ...