Society

On Friday, December 14, 2012, I heard the news in the car. Shots were being fired in an elementary school ...

In less than a week, so much has been said to eulogize Nelson Mandela. Together with Frederik Willem de Klerk, ...

Lately it seems like Halloween has becomes a Rorschach test for how Jews feel about assimilation. As expressed in this eloquent blog ...

Below, Rabbi Alana Suskin explains why her family doesn’t trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...

If I lived alone on Planet Laura, I would stop writing about the Pew survey, in protest against unproductive, polarized ...

As Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz says, statistics in the Pew Research Center’s survey of American Jewish attitudes and beliefs are wide ...

As a synagogue rabbi, I feel as if we have been running a religious marathon for the past month. since. ...

I believe that pulpit rabbis have an obligation to frame issues of the day in a moral lens even when ...

This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has created renewed interest in the actions of Polish gentiles who assisted ...