Jewish identity

Like everyone else, I balance different aspects of my identity: American, Jew, New Yorker, educator, feminist, mother, white, spouse, runner, ...

A couple of years ago I received a call from a long-time congregant, Steve (I’ve changed his name and other ...

As a rabbi of an innovative global organization, it is important for me not just to be in my office ...

This week, I’d like to focus on the self, not as the observer, but as the observed. Not when we ...

We live with a practical tradition. We begin the New Year with ten days devoted to introspection. Between Rosh Hashanah and ...

In partnership with The Jewish Week’s “The New Normal” blog, FJC is pleased to present a series of blog posts ...

I didn’t expect to cry when I picked my kid up from camp.When I dropped him off at the bus? ...

Any run-in with a Russian bathhouse is bound to shock: men chugging bottles of beer-like kvass, felt hats helping them ...

Yes. But it’s complicated.My mother is Jewish, which, as my grandmother used to tell me, means that the Nazis would ...

Jewish overnight camp is about so much more than campfires and color war. At camp, kids get the chance to ...