Practices
A Mitzva Child
Oh Conservative Movement, you continue our love-hate relationship. Today I hate you.The movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards recently ...
Water in Israel
-Global warming notwithstanding, Israeli rainfall statistics have remained essentially unchanged in the 60 years they have been tracked. (Haaretz) -Preserving ...
Obligation
Rabbi Andy Bachman, an engaging and innovative Reform rabbi, recently blogged about those people who come to say kaddish at ...
Voting and the Homosexual Agenda
In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...
Bad News on the Environment
Just a day after Tu Bishvat comes word that the United States continues to receive poor grades on environmental issues. ...
Just You Wait
One of the stand-out sessions for me at this year’s LimmudNY was a panel called Can You Hear My Now? ...
Shabbat at LimmudNY
OR: Tales of a Postdenominational Jew at a Postdenominational Conference.This is my first year at LimmudNY, and I didn’t quite ...
Heeb, Seriously
No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...
Who is a Jew?
From the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog:ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate once labeled a white supremacist is fighting ...
Jewish Ethics
-A look at a new national curriculum called Ethical Start, which is reframing the way JCC educators teach values to ...