Torah
VeAhavta: And You Shall Love
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Women in Rashi’s Time: It Wasn’t the Dark Ages for Them
On July 27, the 29th of Tammuz, I will observe the 909th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as ...
Vows and Thou
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
The Soul of Each and Every Individual
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Never/ Yes Again
On June 20th, 2014, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann offered the following words of prayer at the UJA-Federation’s “Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement,” ...
JOFA Kickstarter Celebrates Women Scholars
For millennia, it has been taken for granted that the place for Jewish women was in the home and in ...
How To Read The Hebrew Bible
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to staff a table at the Chicago Jewish Festival. It was a ...
Camouflaged Education
How could I try to hide in plain sight? Well if I was well camouflaged I might use any combination ...
Revealing Passover
We come together for Passover to celebrate our ongoing liberation from slavery. During the seder we will speak at length ...
Shab-bark Shalom, Y’all!
For over 20 years at my home synagogue, Temple Sinai of New Orleans, Rabbi Edward Cohn has presided over a ...