Ritual Inclusion

“Tzi-tzit tzitzit tzitzit, where are you today? I need you for a bracha, I need you right away!”This was a ...

Don’t be mad, but I am ordaining myself as a Hazzanista, which is like a cantor, barista, and fashionista rolled ...

With great fanfare, David Zvi Kalman and Joshua Schwartz announced their production of a new, “egalitarian and queer-inclusive” bencher, Seder ...

I didn’t mind the mechitza  at first. The wall—more frequently a short partition—separating men and women in ritual spaces was ...

My youngest daughter will turn nine in just a few weeks, but I have already begun to actively arrange for ...

I never could carry a tune but, at an early age, I discovered that I could make a soulful sound ...

Every year at this time, from the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul into Tishrei, my mind vaguely registers that ...

Each shofar has a unique undulating shape and trumpeting sound. The sound may be low and haunting or bold and ...

There were a couple of times when I said Kaddish in some unconventional or “unorthodox” circumstances, but they were quite ...

The recitation of Kaddish benefits both the soul of the departed loved one, as well as the mourner.