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Should Jews Care About Government Monitoring Our Phone Calls?
The NSA knows who you called last Tuesday at 8:00pm—should you care?From an American civil liberties perspective, we have seen ...
Fourteen Prayers for Peace
In 2009, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, with a simple, moving speech. He spoke of the challenge of ...
A Halloween With Jewish Values?
Lately it seems like Halloween has becomes a Rorschach test for how Jews feel about assimilation. As expressed in this eloquent blog ...
Back to School: Help Bring Social Justice & LGBTQ Equality to the Classroom
September is just around the corner, which means a new academic year is approaching. But schools aren’t always the ideal ...
3 Ways Ethiopian Jews Use Honey on Rosh Hashanah
Think beyond apples and honey…
Teens & Screens Part 2: Cyberbullying
The following is the second in a three-part series on how to help safely navigate the world of social media ...
Becoming Southern & Jewish: Part II
This post is the second in my three-part-series on “Becoming Southern and Jewish.”Over the course of my next two years ...
Celebrate, Rabbis Without Borders
Judaism in a Secular Age – Just What God Wanted!
Six weeks from now when the world and the Jewish People experience another Rosh Hashanah, we will stand before God ...
Jewish Culture, JOFA's Torch, Pray
Chayla on the Balcony
Looking at the award-winning photograph “Chayla in Shul” I wonder:What is Chayla thinking? Here she is. Alone in this cavernous ...