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As a Mississippi transplant, Rabbi Matt Dreffin loves sharing his Jewish story—even when it's sometimes misunderstood.

In recent weeks, I was struck by a couple of conversations that got me thinking about what we do as ...

Why should the fact that I have a company that serves synagogues rather than in a synagogue make me an “other” in the Jewish professional community?

If you have been engaged in this process you know how difficult it can be

They were older than me, by at least five years, and I was afraid. Though my Satmar Hasidic neighbors were ...

What does it mean to be part of a social change movement?I recently was privileged to learn first-hand one way ...

They say that all rabbis have only one sermon.  If you’re lucky you have two, but when you look at the second ...

I’m writing this as the father of a transgender child, who feels constricted in a space too narrow to accept ...

Cultural anthropologists call it ‘going native’. You find yourself in the field as a participant observer of your host culture ...

It feels almost cliché to say that I have loved watching Women’s Gymnastics during these 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio ...