2013

Parashat Yitro: The First Commandment Revisited

Torah Queery: A Queer Take on the Weekly Torah Portion Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these ...

Taking The Plunge

It was January 2007, almost exactly six years ago. I was sitting in my office, reviewing a dense corporate document ...

Rock and Roll Jews

There’s acid rock, blues rock, glam rock, punk rock, and about 100 more variations of good ol’ rock and roll. ...

A Minyan of Minyans Across the South

For more than a year, I’ve been working with Dr. Ron Wolfson  to plan a ten-day lecture tour to visit communities ...

What I’ve Learned from Crossword Puzzles

Every day, I do the New York Times crossword puzzle. It truly is a ritual for me, almost as sacred ...

How Some Jews Live

I always begin like this, with Irv, my grandfather, and then I describe him, An angel on Earth, never another like him. ...

A Crash Course in Being a Professional Ally to LGBTQ Youth

“I have friends I can be Jewish with, and friends I can be queer with, but I’ve never had a ...

Leave my bar mitzvah alone!

Last week I was following the dialogue and reflections of two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues on the topic ...

“The Power is YOURS!”

Did you grow up watching Captain Planet? (I didn’t – but that’s a long story; apparently I have some catching ...

What’s Meant to Be

One of the things that I find most compelling about Judaism is the idea of b’shert. It fills me with joy ...

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