2013

Sarah Tuttle-Singer on Jewrotica

There’s a new player on the Jewish blog scene, and it’s not holding back. Jewrotica is a “pluralistic and sex-positive organization ...

Thirteen Seder Virgins

On Tuesday night, I hosted a large Passover seder at my home in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of love for this ...

The Nuts and Bolts of Writing

Quite recently, someone asked me about my “process.” This someone wasn’t asking about the creative parts—the meandering through the dark, ...

On Pesach, you are not alone.

Passover has always been my favorite holiday. I love the foods, seeing my family and my friends who are normally ...

Neshama

Miriam Shwartz is the co-director of JCC Ranch Camp in Colorado’s Black Forest.We’ve just passed the 10,000 feet mark on ...

The Kavannah for Gay Ordination

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the legal and spiritual center for Conservative Judaism in America, ...

Learning to Breathe

I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...

Change from the Balcony

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

Wicked Son: “Because I knew you…”

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...

Precious Haroset

I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...

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