Denominations
How I Ended Up Delivering the Sermon on Rosh Hashanah
Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...
The Challenge of Modern Jewish Practice (or An Elul Apology)
The phone rang loudly in our house. My middle son jumped up and dashed to get it, picked up the ...
Rediscovering Prayer with the New Reform Movement Machzor
This is the time of year that rabbis and cantors are busy preparing for the High Holy Days. Time taken ...
Would Oliver Sacks Call Himself “Religious”?
Oliver Sacks is one of the most respected scientists today. The author of many best-selling books on the brain, he ...
Yeshiva University Dean Wants to Reverse Gains in Women’s Torah Learning
My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...
When it Comes to Jewish Sexual Laws, It’s 3 Jews, 0 Opinions
Laws of family purity and sex should be private, but can they be too private?Some of this post contains adult ...
Supporting Victims of Domestic Violence in the Orthodox World
When I say I work at a domestic violence shelter that serves the religious community, reactions are divided and fall ...
Supporting My Gay Son
This morning The Torch, a project of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, shared the heartwarming story of a family adjusting to ...
Living “Out” Within the Orthodox Community
I grew up 100 percent Camp Ramah and United Synagogue Youth (both Conservative movement institutions), but after marrying a Modern ...
Can The Jewish People Find Common Ground?
Can the Jewish people find common ground? Is there enough that brings together all the varied different ways of being ...
Do We Need Lent in Judaism?
There are two funny images I like to circulate this time every year as we approach the Passover holiday. The ...
Will There Be One Jewish People?
I have been thinking a lot again recently about the correspondence between one of the great Orthodox luminaries of the ...