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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.
Israel, Members of the Scribe, Sephardic Jews, Study
Double Vision
Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...
Disability, Gender & Sexuality, Jewish History, Jewish Thought, Keshet, Live, Study
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 ...
Celebrate, Rabbis Without Borders, Sukkot
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.
Disability, Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
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 ...
Mourn, Pray, Prayers for Mourners, Rabbis Without Borders, Sitting Shiva
When A Friend Dies
On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.