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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?
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 ...
What Is Midrash?
These writings, which fill in gaps in biblical texts, falls into two categories: halacha and aggadah.
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 ...
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 ...