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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...

Two weeks ago I posted a piece responding to some articles on patrilineality which provoked several excellent other blog posts ...

Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...

This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...

This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual who had been born to a Jewish father and ...

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...

A couple of years ago, after several years of trying to get all the way through the counting of the ...

By Education Fellow Reva FrankelI grew up in a Modern Orthodox community, so when I came to work at the ...

In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...