Torah
A Blessing for a Surrogate Mother
“Do you know of a prayer for a surrogate?” The question came over Facebook Chat a few nights ago, sent ...
Our Daughters’ Tallitot
In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...
Teaching Our Children How to Swim
In addition to beginning to plan for the upcoming 2014 camping season, Gilad and I find ourselves also busy preparing ...
Torah for Siblings
In just a couple weeks, with the help of God and the hospital staff, my family is going to undergo ...
Simchat Torah: Circling Back
Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries ...
When The Big Game is on The Big Day
This special holiday post comes from guest blogger Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, Executive Director of Hillel at Texas A&M University. Thank ...
Patrilineal Jewish Descent: An Open Orthodox Approach
This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...
On Becoming Empty Nesters
This morning my wife and I drove our youngest daughter to the airport as she left for a year of ...
World Cat Day: A Jewish Perspective
Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in ...
Researching God
Theist? Atheist? Agnostic?Don’t answer until you’ve done some rigorous research.That’s right, research: with a method, literature review, experimental design, data ...