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Yevamot 86

Walling off the garden.

The Covenant of Fertility

Fertility of the womb and fertility of the land are divine gifts.

Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish

An Ashkenazic Reform Korean rabbi explores her identity.

Living “Out” Within the Orthodox Community

I grew up 100 percent Camp Ramah and United Synagogue Youth (both Conservative movement institutions), but after marrying a Modern ...

Mitzvot: Contemporary Understandings

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.

Passover and Easter

Both celebrate spring and hope, though there are major differences between them also.

International Transgender Day of Visibility: A Jewish Perspective

For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...

Why I Balked At Disneyland on Yom Kippur

How do you confess to a sin without believing in sin?

A Letter Which Is Not Read

I’ve been dreaming about my mother a lot recently. A while back I wrote about how I’m not one of ...

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