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What Sukkot and the Day of the Dead Have in Common
Bringing together my Mexican and Jewish heritages.
Four Steps For Changing Your Life in the New Year
A change expert and rabbi-to-be offers advice on how to make change happen.
A Refugee from Laos Finds a Home in the Jewish Community
What Holocaust survivors taught this refugee from Laos.
Kosher Money?
Judaism obligates us to call out our fellow’s unethical behavior and encourage them to change it.
Humility and How to Get Some
Do we each have more to learn, things we can do better?
The Complex Nature of Intersectionality
Writer Erika K. Davis reflects on the Chicago Dyke March and provides perspective as a Queer Jew of Color.
Intersectionality and the Limits of Ideology
The limitations of the teacher I encountered as a young student don’t represent an entire segment of Jewish thinking.
Jewish Beauty Queens and Movie Stars: The Unknown Story of Bollywood
A filmaker’s journey to uncover the story of Jews in Bollywood.
Principled Preconditions Prevent People Progress
The meaningful statements that each side wants the other to make as a precondition to dialogue are unilateral capitulations to the other side’s truth.
Honor Non-Jewish Parents of Jewish Kids
Once the interfaith family exists, alienating families that are interfaith but committed to raising Jewish children is not good for Judaism.
Blue Sheep Are Still Sheep
Sameness does not breed creativity or vitality. Variety does.