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Ask the Expert: What If It’s Not Safe To Display My Menorah?
There have been antisemitic incidents in my area and I’m worried about being visibly Jewish.
Perhaps The Last Yibbum in History
A personal perspective about a grandmother who was a yavamah.
An Angel is Born
Chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek! Let’s be strong, and strengthen one another!
Be All That You Can Be
In 1996, I fell in love with Marsha Falk’s feminist revision of the blessing I’d been giving my daughters every ...
Reb Zalman Was A Gracious Man
We are only a few days shy of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s first yahrtzeit, and I miss him. To honor him ...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Live, Mourn, Rabbis Without Borders
The Wilderness of Sinai
Bamidbar is my daughter Elena’s bat mitzvah portion. As she was approaching bat mitzvah, fifteen years ago, my father was ...
Celebrate, Mysticism, Rabbis Without Borders, Shavuot
Like God, I Am Prismatic
Although it might be awkward to articulate the breadth and depth of human qualities we aspire to, it is not ...
It’s All Our Fault
The holiday spirit has descended upon Christopher Hitchens. What kind of present are we getting?A Hanukkah message, in which he ...
Eat, Hanukkah Food, Jewish Recipes
Latkes for Breakfast?
I love Hanukkah, but more than celebrating the holiday with friends and family, I relish the excuse to break out ...