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Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell
Welcome to our fifth installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rabbis and cantors. This ...
Ageism in Jewish Life
There is an old joke about the rabbinic search committee who in looking for a rabbi wanted someone who was ...
The Pedagogy of Nemo: What a Winter Storm Can Teach Us About Shabbat
Well, that was an unexpected weekend! For those of you who do not live in the Northeast, we just got ...
A Single Long Day
The New Year of 5773 is upon us. Rosh Hashanah (the head of the year) is known by several names ...
Rabbis Speak Out for Equality
On July 1st, Massachusetts moved one step closer to living up to its reputation as the birthplace of democracy – ...
Funny, You Don’t Book Jewish
Lois Leveen’s newest novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, is now available. There’s a novel I first read years ago ...
Tomorrow’s Rabbi Today
What does the synagogue of the future look like? Today synagogue affiliation rates are dropping, as are affiliation rates across ...
The times they are a changing…..Thank God!
When I was in rabbinical school in the mid to late 1990s the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical ...
Bageling
Have you ever been ‘bageled’?“Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual to ...
Into the Conversation
I was recently in an awkward social situation. My husband and I were invited to dinner at the home of ...