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My Grandmother’s Story, The Story of a Generation

Remembering an individual life that embodied a slice of small town American Jewish life

Canaanite Careers

The Musings of an Anxious Young Jewish Professional

A Time to be Silent and a Time to Speak

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Cold Feet

Later this month, my fifteen-year-old son, Jonah, is off to Camp B’Nai Brith (CBB) in the Laurentians, about an hour ...

Flying the Friendly Skies

I’m what you would call a reluctant business traveler. While I am the director of the Education Department of the ...

Coalition building: Towards LGBTQ-inclusive Sex Ed in Boston

Mimi Arbeit, who writes a weekly column called The Debrief for JewishBoston.com , takes a look at LGBTQ-inclusive sex ed. ...

Why My Camp Rabbi Might be Sporting a Pixie Cut This Summer: What Camp Rabbis Do in the Off Season

As I think back on the past 20-some-odd summers at camp, there are probably about a dozen programs that I ...

The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case: How One Case Could Change Everything

Rabbi (to be) Ari Naveh recently shared how he balances the line between being a gay rabbi—and a rabbi who ...

I Wasn’t Asking For Your Opinion.

Over 18 ½ years ago I was chosen to be the first Congregational Intern at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. ...

Jewish Characters on TV: The Best of 2009

There are lots of characters on TV that happen to be Jewish. Like the emergence of African Americans into mainstream ...

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