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Yom Kippur — A Different Read
The High Holidays are nearly upon us, and while it’s wonderful to carve out time for reflection, contemplation and community, ...
Four Ways to Make your Jewish Institution Inclusive for LGBTQ Interfaith Families
The High Holidays – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – can be the most synagogue-centric of the Jewish calendar year. ...
High Heels and Aching Feet: Politics as Usual
“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” – ...
Mock Jewish Divorce
It’s become almost a cliche program at American Jewish summer camps. The mock Jewish wedding teaches kids, through an interactive ...
Entering the Holy of Holies
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Tachlis of Inclusion: Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin and the Israel Center for Conservative Judaism
With the High Holidays approaching, and major spiritual heavy lifting to be done, it’s an especially important time of year ...
Obligation, Faith, and Service After the Storm
I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...
Senior Year: APs, College Prep, and Coming Out in My Orthodox High School
When I tell my friends who are not Orthodox that I’m out of the closet and attending a Modern ...
Eighteen Twenty-Two
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
It Takes a Community: Katrina, Recovery, Resilience
Hurricane Katrina (and the man-made disaster of the levee breaks) struck Louisiana and Mississippi seven years ago today, with devastating ...
Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Steve Greenberg
As someone who is involved in Jewish LGBT work, I am often surprised people tell me that they had no ...
To Wear is Human, To Live — Divine
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...