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Conference Asks: Why Be Jewish?

Last night, I returned from a few days in Park City, Utah where I was attending a conference sponsored by ...

A Place for the Primal

The mythic and the magical has its place in the sanctuary of the holy.

Double Vision

Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2

Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...

Authors Blog with Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning

Jewish literature is deep into a renaissance. Jewish books and Jewish authors are no longer ethnic tokens on a larger ...

Embracing Unity, Not Uniformity

The High Holiday season just ended. A spiritual, emotional and communal journey through Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot culminated ...

Sacrifices And Passover

The juxtaposition of Vayikra with preparations for Passover shows the parallels between cleaning our homes and souls and offering atonement and thanksgiving.

Hints of “Queerness” from Our Ancestors, Our Sages, and Our God

Rabbi Lisa Edwards, of Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), offered these words last week as leaders from day schools across Los Angeles ...

When A Friend Dies

On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.

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