Shabbat

 “Is she converting?”“Clearly, she is not from around here, I wonder if she is even Jewish.”“She must be someone’s nanny…”These ...

While driving down Route 95 on the East Coast, one has the ability to survey hundreds of billboards along the ...

When I entered rabbinical school, I never imagined I would become a rabbi of an online synagogue. In fact, when ...

The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...

Lekhah Dodi  (‘Come my friend’) is the hymn sung on Friday night to welcome Shabbat. The prayer begins, “Come my friend, ...

Pride Month might be over, but celebrating one’s identity is a year long process. This post comes to us from London, ...

My last year has been full of change: I got married. My husband got a new job, out of state. ...

Coming out is hard. Coming out to your family at Shabbat dinner is really hard. Take a look at how ...

One of my favorite parts of the Passover seder is the singing that takes place after we finish eating. There are so ...

Carnival, Mardi Gras, Carnaval.  These words convey exhuberance, dancing, masks, and overflowing joy (and often excess). From Rio to New ...