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The Case for Still Giving Thanks (With a Little Help from Hebrew)
In the best of years, Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday. Its complications are multi-level, valid, and not easily overcome. Many ...
Judaism is Increasingly Transdenominational — And That’s A Good Thing
The Jewish day school I attended for grade school and middle school was affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judaism. ...
Drawn to the Light
One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...
Choose Your Word Wisely
Have you already chosen your word for 2015? The word that will focus your attention on what you want to ...
Ask Asher: It Gets Better
Have a question about LGBTQ life? Jewish life? LGBTQ Jewish Life? Ask Asher! Send your questions to AskAsher@keshetonline.org and you might be featured in ...
The Power of the Aleph
I don’t speak Hebrew and, despite a few semi-earnest attempts to learn my aleph-bet, I don’t read it either. I recognize enough ...
Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape
Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...
Aleph, Bet…
I remember being a little kid, maybe four or five, when my dad sat me down with a workbook and ...
Living in Hebrew, Thinking in Aramaic, Writing in English
“Many artists are ‘underground’,” a writing instructor of mine once remarked, “but no one is more underground than writers.” To ...
Yoda’s Yiddishkeit: Jewish He Seems, Hmmm?
The month of May, known as “Liberation Month,” contains Cinco de Mayo (celebrating Mexico’s liberating victory over the French in ...