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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 ...

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

What Is Gematria?

Hebrew numerology, and the secrets of the Torah.

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 ...

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 ...

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