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What does it mean to be hero in Judaism, and who to me represents that more than anyone?For me, a hero ...

As we prepare to commemorate Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, I’ve been thinking about my father- in- law, Leon Schipper, ...

With Mother’s Day approaching, let’s take a moment to celebrate mothers.There is no single vision of the Jewish mother. Jewish ...

Is there any topic more Jewish than food? I feel like a pretty strong argument can be made that food ...

Pesach (Passover) is my favorite holiday. I enjoy reading about the journey from slavery to freedom and the journey of ...

My Orthodox Jewish self, my fear and shame, my internalized homophobia could not fathom a way of bringing my relationship with my religion and my understanding of what God wants for me into marriage with a woman. It has taken me years of being out and going through heartbreak and growth to be in the place that I believe that God wants to be involved in my marriage to Mary. In order to be married in an authentic way, I need both my religious self and my queer self to be there.

I can recall, apparently with terrific inaccuracy, hearing a kindergarten story about an incorrigible feline who poked his nose into ...

Over the next few weeks, the Torah portions we are reading obsess about two terms with which translators struggle mightily. ...

Each year, Jewish children around the world learn the Four Questions. After all the image of the small child chanting ...

As a rabbi, one of the life-cycle processes I accompany people through is the funeral. When a person dies, burying ...