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Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei: Speaking Truth in This World
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Divorce, Israel, Live, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Appointing Judges Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly
The Torah portion called Shoftim, the Hebrew word for judges, is always read at the beginning of the new month ...
Jewish History, Jewish&, Live, Study, Women & Feminism
Celebrating Heroes During Black History Month
If you had to pick one figure from Black history who inspires you, who would it be? An unfair question ...
Israel, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Behind Farm 54: The Making of the Graphic Novel by Galit & Gilad Seliktar
The graphic novel Farm 54 is based on three stories written by Galit Seliktar. The stories were first published in ...
Elul Explorations From Southern Celebrants
Thoughts from Jackson, Mississippi, during the Days of Awe
Conversion, Jews Around the Globe, Uncategorized
A Refugee from Laos Finds a Home in the Jewish Community
What Holocaust survivors taught this refugee from Laos.
A Coming Out Day and Simchat Torah Letter to a Younger Me
National Coming Out Day was established on October 11, 1988, as a commemoration of the Second National March on Washington ...
Jewish History, Members of the Scribe
On Being Jewish in Amsterdam
Recently, a journalist who was interviewing me asked me to describe what it felt like to be a Jewish New ...
Parashat Pekudei: Building God’s Beautiful Bayit; or, Queer Eye for the Desert Mishkan
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Israel, Mixed Multitudes, Study
ROI Roundup: Saying “Shalom” to Israel (for now)
As a satirist and a cynic, you would think that at the conclusion of ROI, I would have a laundry ...