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Celebrate, Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live, Passover
Passover & the Dream of Liberation
On Passover, we are taught every generation must see themselves as if they had personally been liberated from Egypt. For ...
Young Jews: Every Voice Matters
“For they (the teachings) are our life source, and what lengthen our days, and so we meditate on them day ...
Jewish Thought, Rabbis Without Borders
Towards An Embracing Community
Last week I had the privilege to lead a conversation with 20 or so Jewish young adults in Boston on ...
Alcoholism And The Nation Priests
The priestly prohibition against excessive drinking reminds us to support those in our community challenged by alcoholism.
Ancient/Medieval Jewish History, Jewish History, Jews Around the Globe, Ladino, Sephardic Jews, Study
The Sephardic Exodus to the Ottoman Empire
How Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal transformed the region.
If You Read Just Ten Stories by Sholem Aleichem…
Everyone likes lists, right? Who doesn’t like lists? Okay, fine, you in the back, maybe. But I like lists. And Buzzfeed seems ...
Disability, Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Why I’m Passionate about Transgender Justice
If you’re in Boston, please join us for Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 23rd at 2:30pm in John F Kennedy Park. After, we ...
Moses and Hubris
There’s a great Seinfeld episode–and one I relate to–in which George Constanza worries that he must have cancer because his life ...
Denominations, JOFA's Torch, Live
OAD: On Another Derech
I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...