Torah study

The morning after: Having arrived at Genesis 18:23 with my 9th graders, it seemed like the only thing to do ...

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

The following Thursday was Rosh Chodesh. All the women of the town and many visitors filled the kitchen and hallways ...

Today we celebrate the holiday of Simhat Torah. Literally meaning “rejoicing in Torah,” the holiday is a culmination both of ...

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

Memories of the film, Yentl, came to mind when a number of highly Jewishly educated women invited me to join ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

For years I studied and taught Torah, learning and teaching in many settings, including several batei midrash, teacher training programs, ...

When LGBT Jews re-encounter their tradition on their own terms, they can experience spiritual risk, iconoclasm, and reimagined faith. One ...