Sanctifying the Fulfillment of a Covenant: A Same-Sex “Re-Marriage”
We got married on a Wednesday.
Why My Israeli Son Had a Greek Wedding
I was not at my son's official wedding. Ariel and his wife got married in Cyprus. They made this choice not because of the country's wonderful sights and romantic scenery, but because they wanted to be able to marry outside of the framework of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate.
12 Rituals You May See at a Jewish Wedding
I’ve been invited to an aufruf for a friend's wedding. What is that?
Aufruf (pronounced "owf-roof," or more colloquially "oof-roof ") is a German word meaning "calling up" and refers to a synagogue celebration on the Shabbat preceding the wedding.
Why I Camped Out at 2:30 AM to Watch Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Monday, June 25th, 1:00 AM
My alarm disrupts the silence, and in my sleepy, disoriented stupor I think it must be a mistake.
Reform Movement Marches in Solidarity with San Francisco Pride Parade
Alan Zeichick: "Every person, Jewish or non-Jewish, gay or straight or bisexual or transgender, is created in the image in God."
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Why I Send My Son With Autism to Jewish Summer Camp
Life has been relatively calm the last few days. A major reason for that is that Ted - my son, who has autism - is off at camp for 3 ½ weeks. No, it is not a "special needs camp." In fact, he attends URJ Henry S.
The Comedown
There is pleasure to be had in a work of fiction whose scope spans two generations. Characters are introduced or shown in flashbacks as children, and we see how they fulfill – or don’t – the expectations placed on them by their parents, or how traumas they experience later come to bear. In The Comedown (Henry Holt) – as in Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi’s recent epic of the African diaspora, or Amy Tan’s classic The Joy Luck Club – Rebekah Frumkin explores the ways in which choices made by parents echo through children and grandchildren for decades
Radical Justice?
"You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all your settlements that the Eternal your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.
Just Don’t Forget About Us Women
"This is what the Eternal has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they wish, provided they marry into a clan of their father's tribe. No inheritance of the Israelites may pass over from one tribe to another" (Numbers 36:6–7).