Kate Bigam Kaput

Smiling brunette woman in her thirties

Kate Bigam Kaput (she/her) is a professional health and wellness writer living in Cleveland, OH, and the former assistant director of marketing and communications (messaging and branding) for the Union for Reform Judaism; in this role, she served as content manager and editor for ReformJudaism.org. A prolific essayist, Kate has written for The Washington Post, Cleveland Magazine, and more; her personal essays appear in the anthologies BODY TALK: 37 Voices Discuss Our Radical Anatomy and Living Jewishly: A Snapshot of a Generation.
Hanukkah

"A Kosher Christmas" - Yes, Really!

Kate Bigam Kaput
There's a new Christmukkah book in town, and this one's getting big play in the secular world as well as the Jewish one. The New York Times recently reviewed author Joshua Eli Plaut's A Kosher Christmas, about Jewish traditions on Christmas and how Hanukkah became known to some as "the Jewish Christmas."
Israel

Speaking Out for Religious Pluralism in Israel

Kate Bigam Kaput

“Freedom of Religion in Israel” was the message on the signs held up today by Reform, Conservative, and secular Jews in front of the office of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem.