Jewish Thought

Let’s make a new Jewish holiday.Wait…what?Let’s make a new Jewish holiday. When I opened a recent daily e-mail from The ...

All this week, we’re deeply engaged in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50 events taking place in Jackson, Mississippi.We’ll be sharing ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

At a construction site at the Jerusalem bus station there is a multi-paneled chalkboard with space for people to fill ...

Earlier this week, my excellent colleague, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz asked the important question of whether, “there can be a new ...

One of my favorite parts of the Passover seder is the singing that takes place after we finish eating. There are so ...

The state of public discourse, both within the Jewish community and within our society at large, has taken rather a ...

My Mississippi rabbinical colleague Rabbi Debra Kassoff and myself will both be making a bold statement this spring; more accurately, ...

When we are small, we wait for everything. Every day takes forever until you get to the time when you ...

Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...

Hear from more LGBTQ clergy, including Ariel Naveh, on the Keshet blog. Reading Ariel Naveh’s two-part story on the Keshet blog about ...

For another perspective on this debate, read Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu’s post here.Aside from the bigamy laws, I mean. (JK)Recently, a rabbi ...