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Coming Out

This ceremony ritually celebrates the moment that homosexuals, bisexuals, or transsexuals publicly declare their sexual identities.

Source Criticism of the Torah

How modern scholars explain the origins and authorship of Judaism's foundational text.

The Human Body Code

The imagery of the Bible hints at the luminous potentiality of our bodies to experience God.

Biblical Wisdom Literature

Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes.

An Aramean Destroyed My Father

Commentaries on the Haggadah contrast the evil of Laban with Pharaoh and see Laban as a symbol for political, sociological, and psychological evil.

What the Four Children Can Teach us about Gender Fluidity

What the Four Children Can Teach us about Gender FluidityBy Rabbi Jesse M. OlitzkyQ: We are taught to ask questions ...

The Soul of Each and Every Individual

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?

(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...

5 Things We Wish Teachers Knew About Mental Illness

High school can be difficult to navigate for everyone. However, students struggling with their mental health often experience specific challenges. ...

Wasteful Destruction

Judaism possesses the values on which an ecological morality may be grounded.

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