Jewish Thought

Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...

“’…But, mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham to make ...

“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain ...

You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...

I listened to a recent episode of the NPR show  On Being  (formerly Speaking of Faith) called “The Calling of ...

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

Keshet is pretty excited about The Guys Next Door , a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Erik and ...

I’d like to share with you all the holiday message I have written to the members of Or Shalom Synagogue, ...

I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...

At the end of the week, I embark on a weeklong meditation retreat. As the retreat starts, and for its ...

Meeting Ranya Kelly for the first time you would never guess that this quiet petite woman once brought a major ...

This week’s Torah portion commands us to swear off cheeseburgers. Well not exactly. It was the rabbis that created the ...