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Disability, Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
The Flamingo Rampant Book Club
At Keshet we know how important it is to provide diverse resources for families. Last year we worked with author Elisabeth ...
Denominations, Live, Southern & Jewish
Southern & Conservative
I spend a lot of time with Conservatives in the South. Conservative Jews, in this case (probably not what most ...
Imagine you don’t know how to read a novel.
In his last posts, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building ...
Laying the Ground Work for Repentance One Day: Teshuvah and #MeToo
Real forgiveness is not only between perpetrator and victim, but on all of us to create a new system where none of what has occurred may ever ever ever occur again.
Working With Converts
Excerpts from the Reform Movement's Guidelines for Working with Prospective Converts
FAQ, Jewish Texts, Mysticism, Study
What Is Gematria?
Hebrew numerology, and the secrets of the Torah.
Jewish History, Southern & Jewish, Study
Historical Sources for Small Communities
Many of the Jewish communities that I research and write about for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities are quite ...
Celebrate, Rabbis Without Borders
On Cinco de Mayo: Jews on the edge of Tequila
Sipping margaritas, doing shots of tequila, listening mariachi music and dancing the hora.Not in a million years would I have ...
African-Born Rabbi and Activist Dies
Be’chol Lashon mourns the passing of Rabbi Hailu Paris, a native of Ethiopia who lived most of his life in ...
Remembering Grace Paley
Earlier this year, when Tillie Olsen passed away, I emailed Alice Mattison, author of the wonderful story collection In Case ...