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Friendships Bud
Inclusion cultivates a warm, safe, judgment-free zone. Children, who ordinarily may not be friends, embrace each other in friendship and ...
Women’s Megillah Reading in a Small Town–Some Tips From Our 5th Year
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — we are the capital city of the Commonwealth. No, Pennsylvania’s capital is not in Philadelphia. Several years ago ...
Two Thirds A Jewish Woman
I am two thirds a woman. There are only three mitzvot uniquely, singularly, and expressly for women, making up the ...
From Facebook Likes to Real-World Love
Their love was evident to everyone who was there on that beautiful day in October when Yechochanan and Aminah Perkins ...
The Gift
The day I got the email our family’s life changed. The president of our synagogue had forwarded it to me ...
Women Should Help Women
It is common for groups who are discriminated against or have little power in a society to turn on one ...
Queer at a Jewish Boarding School in North Carolina
My journey of figuring out my sexual orientation began when I was 12 years old and living in a suburb of ...
My Journey Back to Jewish Summer Camp
All of the major signposts of my life are linked to my attending Jewish residential camp at Camp Ramah, in ...
A Soulless Figure, A Figureless Soul
My roommate came home yesterday with a story I’ve experienced myself too many times in too many different ways.She was ...
Why I Co-Officiate Interfaith Marriages
The most popular days to get engaged are Christmas (and I assume Hanukkah!), New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. That ...
Planning My Southern Jewish Wedding
Planning a wedding is quite a feat. A fun, exciting, thrilling, crazy feat…but a feat nonetheless. Especially when you’re planning ...