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How To Interview Your Elders
Judaism places a high value on passing stories from generation to generation. Here’s how to get the most out of your conversations with your parents and grandparents.
Interfaith, Live, Southern & Jewish
Transmission of Torah: For Jews Only?
According to the National Jewish Population Survey, there are approximately 1.5 million non-Jews helping to raise Jewish families in the ...
Celebrate, Live, Women & Feminism
Women of the Tent: The Power of Women’s Prayer Spaces
It was a sunny winter day in Boca Raton, Florida. My mother and I approached the home where local history ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Keeping up with the Brooks…
in jail?David Brooks, notorious for spending more than $10 million on his daughter’s bat mitzvah two years ago, was arrested ...
Getting Our B’nei Mitzvah to Understand (and Love) Torah Study
Helping 13-year-olds understand a 3,000-year-old text is challenging, to say the least.After all, trying to glean lessons from the Torah ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Talking About Abortion From the Bimah
This past weekend I went to a family bat mitzvah in the DC area. It was an intense weekend, full ...
Classical Understandings of Mitzvot and their Reasons
The rabbinic sages and later philosophers and mystics offered many ways to categorize the mitzvot and explain their significance.
Interfaith, Live, Weddings & Marriage
Intermarriage and the American Jewish Community
Once taboo, "marrying out" is now commonplace and — outside Orthodoxy — widely accepted.
Health & Wellness, Live, Pray, Rabbis Without Borders
Wrong Blessing. Right.
Three weeks had passed since they had put my daughter’s hand in a cast. A small misstep while working with ...