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There has been some discussion in the blogosphere about our annual pre-High Holy Days conference call for rabbis, held last week addressing health care reform and sponsored by the Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist rabbinic organizations (as well as

Parshat Shoftim is among the most quoted in the entire Torah. Shoftim, which means "Judges," helps the Israelites understand what forms justice takes - and ought to take - for a righteous people. To further explain, the good folks over at G-dcast.com asked us

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":null,"attributes":{"class":"media-image mt-image-right","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"670","height":"918","alt":"JudyHellman.jpg"}}]]Judy Hellman is the Associate Director of the Jewish Community

What were you doing last Sunday at 8:30 a.m.? That's when Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Reform Movement's Just Congregations, appeared on CNN's "Faces of Faith" segment with host TJ Holmes and guest Rev. Dr. Derrick Harkins of the 19th Street Baptist

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them.  You may eat of them, but

Two weekends ago, a gunman attacked the Agudah LGBT community center in Tel Aviv, murdering two young, gay Israelis. When I first heard this news, I was shocked, horrified, angry, embarrassed, sad and instantaneously compelled to act.

Congress is officially on recess, but it won't be an easy vacation - for them or for us.

Refugee camps are often overlooked in Jewish youth programming. While teens love to talk about conflicts, they rarely concentrate on actual life inside of the refugee camps that are a result of those conflicts. Teens work tirelessly to stop major conflicts like genocide (which is great!), but refugees continue to suffer with little recognition.