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The Cruel Demands of Purity and Beauty

By and large it is not only the preference for beauty that has spilled into Western culture, but also the equation between beauty and goodness.

Jewish Peoplehood for the Millennial Generation

On the eighth night of Hanukkah our synagogue’s young adult group hosted an event in collaboration with the Denver Jewish ...

LivingSocial’s Antisemitic Halloween Party

Soo looks like I will never again be perusing LivingSocial for a teeth-whitening deal ever again. The popular flash-sale website ...

Yevamot 51

The nine-year-old levir.

Hello, Labels: Creating a Feminist Orthodox Wedding

The night before my wedding, as I was falling asleep, I realized that my fiance and I hadn’t discussed whether ...

Rabbi Jason Klein, Groundbreaker

This spring, Rabbi Jason Klein was elected to lead the Reconstructionist movement’s rabbinic association, making him the first out gay ...

Modeling Respect on Lag B’Omer

According to Jewish Law it is the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer ...

Israel’s Vibrant Jewish Ethnic Mix

Just because Israel is a Jewish country doesn't mean all its Jews are the same.

Etan G: The Interview

For a while, Etan G was known as “the Jewish rapper” — you know, as opposed to one of several ...

Same-Sex Marriage

The liberal Jewish movements are struggling to balance contemporary morality and Jewish tradition in deciding whether to ritually honor same-sex unions.

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