Beliefs & Practices

Two weeks ago, I joined thousands of families around Israel for a time-honored ritual: the Saturday night grand finale of ...

I recently completed a one-year Kahn Fellowship for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. My aim during the fellowship ...

I’m a runner, a three-time marathoner. Whenever someone asks when I took up running, I say I started 12 years ago. ...

I hope we can all agree that the tragedy of the Freundel case is the harm that was done to ...

Tent: The South was an immersive learning experience.18 strangers got on a bus and trusted me to show them the ...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Tenement Museum in New York City. The museum, which ...

There are several things that happen when a stone is thrown into a lake. First, the stone pierces the top ...

I have been thinking a lot about Jewish identity recently. How do we define our own connection to Judaism? What ...

This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of my conversion to Judaism.As for so many others, my process of entering into ...

I am supposed to go to the mikveh tomorrow night.The mikveh and I have never been friends; the first time I immersed, ...

Vashti is a heroine of the Purim story because she chose not to expose her naked body to the Court despite ...

The last thing I imagined to find when I moved to Mississippi? A tabernacle.Over the years, I’ve learned a lot ...