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Shifting Boundaries

The default on membership bills should not be an assumption of heteronormativity, or that every spouse in a family wants to join gender-specific clubs.

Prophets, Pastors, or Pariahs

So here we are, three weeks after the presidential election, and it ain’t an easy time to be a Jewish ...

How My Writer’s Workshop Class was Hijacked by a Colleague

This will be my final post for the Rabbis Without Borders blog as I have chosen to focus my time ...

Funding Innovation is Nice. Now Let’s Redistribute Wealth.

It is wonderful that we in the Jewish community are funding innovative initiatives. There are so many interesting ideas around ...

Is Capitalism Hurting Synagogue Life?

“How big is your congregation?”This is the number one question I am asked as a congregational rabbi in settings of ...

Synagogue Maintenance As A Sacred Endeavor

Can sweeping the floor be sacred? Is it possible to view repairing the HVAC system as holy work? Synagogues have ...

Five Ways the Super Bowl is like Online Judaism

As a rabbi of an online congregation, I am often asked about whether people have “real” Jewish experiences online. Some ...

Let Rabbis Lead!

Last month Rabbi Yamin Levy (note: I studied with Rabbi Levy when I was a rabbinical student at YCT Rabbinical ...

Can Synagogues Be More Like Starfish?

Membership is lagging, we haven’t been able to convince the preschool families to join the synagogue and sales in the ...

Synagogues: Begin With Why

“Thank you for visiting our website. We are a vibrant congregation with daily and Shabbat services. We offer young adult ...

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