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They’re Coming to America
For several weeks now, I’ve maintained a careful silence in my 9th grade Jewish Literature classroom about the politics of immigration ...
Home Away
I look for locations for my stories on CyberRentals and HomeAway. I find the houses described on these websites far ...
Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Fix Society. Now. Please!
It’s been just over a week since Leelah Alcorn committed suicide. Leelah grew up not far from where I live ...
Areivim/The Fund for the Jewish Future — What Do You Think?
I ended a week of fundraising travel with Daniel (yeah, we’ve gotta do that to keep the Jewish knowledge flowing ...
The Ellenson Challenge
In this week’s Forward, David Ellenson, president of Hebrew Union College, recounts two recent events in which Israeli Orthodox rabbis ...
Liquid Love
I don’t know Molly Young, but she is about to become my new best friend.Anyone who seems to love Cel-Ray ...
Jewish Thought, Science and Ecology, Study
Bal Tashchit: The Torah Prohibits Wasteful Destruction
Fruit trees cannot be destroyed in war, and the Jewish legal tradition takes this to be a paradigm for any act of despoliation.
Sitting Down with Chai Feldblum
An interview with OUTstanding! 2019 honoree, Chai Feldblum, former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Partner and Director of Workplace Culture Consulting at Morgan Lewis, and activist extraordinaire
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study
Orthodox Halakhic Texts
Orthodox leaders responded to modernity by producing legal works on a variety of topics, in a variety of genres.