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Ask the Expert: Can I Sit Shiva For Anyone?
Can I sit shiva for someone I'm not obligated to mourn for?
Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Ari the Big Gay Rabbinical Student: On Navigating Two Challenging Identities
Deciding to become a rabbi is a momentous decision. For a gay man, the decision is even more fraught. In ...
What Is Midrash?
These writings, which fill in gaps in biblical texts, falls into two categories: halacha and aggadah.
Celebrate, Jewish Texts, JOFA's Torch, Live, Purim, Study, Women & Feminism
Including Agunot on Purim in Montreal
Every year costumed women and children arrive from communities across the island, all aglow and abuzz with great anticipation. Purim ...
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish Thought, Uncategorized
Humility and How to Get Some
Do we each have more to learn, things we can do better?
Celebrate, Gender & Sexuality, Jewish Texts, JOFA's Torch, Live, Purim, Study
A New Purim Hero?
This year on Purim, several minyanim in the U.S. and in Israel will be reading the Megillah with a twist. ...
Interfaith, Live, Southern & Jewish, Weddings & Marriage
Somebody’s Getting Married… Under the Chuppah!
Only this Jewish woman – this devoted, active, works-in-the Jewish community Jewish woman! – would meet and marry a man named ...