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The Jewish History of Joyva
This 115 year-old candy company is the ultimate American immigrant story.
Taking the Bat out of Batman
“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...
Celebrating Passover Around the World
According to legend, at Passover Elijah the Prophet visits every Seder table around the world. As he travels he must ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Barbecuing with the Hijackers
Gal Beckerman‘s first book, When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, will ...
Conversion, Denominations, Jewish Law, Live, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Patrilineal Descent: Why This Rabbi Feels No Angst
This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...
Interfaith, Live, Rabbis Without Borders, Weddings & Marriage
What We Are Not Asking When We Talk About Intermarriage
Monday in the JTA, Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom published an op-ed in which he argued that it was time that Conservative rabbis officiate ...
Denominations, Jewish Thought, Live, Rabbis Without Borders
My Journey from the Closet to the Pulpit
Hear from more LGBTQ clergy, including Ariel Naveh, on the Keshet blog. Reading Ariel Naveh’s two-part story on the Keshet blog about ...
Holy or Horrible: Can We Force Meaningful Moments?
As a Jewish educator, I teach students of all ages about the sacred moments we will experience throughout our lives ...
Everything About Yom Kippur Is An Invention
While the synagogue observance of Yom Kippur may seem like a stable, solid, trans-historical whole, it is none of those things.