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Why My Camp Rabbi Might be Sporting a Pixie Cut This Summer: What Camp Rabbis Do in the Off Season
As I think back on the past 20-some-odd summers at camp, there are probably about a dozen programs that I ...
A Completely Trivial and Out-of-Context Snapshot of Israeli Military Rule
The army usually declares a closure of the Palestinian territories for the holidays, meaning that all permits allowing Palestinians entrance into Israel become null and void.
How Technology Changes Theology
Technology is radically changing how economically valuable human beings are.
Jewish Languages, Jewish&, Ladino, Sephardic Jews
Children’s Album Renews Jewish Ladino Tradition
It was not until she was already on her way to adulthood, that singer Sarah Aroeste discovered the connection between ...
Can you have a future if you can’t escape the past?
Two recent articles had me thinking about the possibility of tshuvah today. The first was an article that appeared in ...
Antisemitism & Bigotry, Rabbis Without Borders
Why Jews Should Care About The Donald Sterling Controversy
I have had many reactions so far to the recently leaked audio of comments made by Los Angeles Clippers owner ...
Gender & Sexuality, Israel, Live, Members of the Scribe, Study, Women & Feminism
7 Places Where Religious Radicalism Threatens Women’s Well-Being in Israel
Women being arrested for praying out loud at the Western Wall – it’s a story so shocking that it has managed to ...
Antisemitism & Bigotry, Holocaust, Jewish History, Members of the Scribe, Study
Borrowed Words
I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...
Holocaust, Jewish History, Members of the Scribe, Study
Stumbling Stones
In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...
The Living Have Work to Do
Seeking meaning in the sudden deaths of Aaron's sons.