Arts, Culture & Travel
The Jewish Women Who Influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gangsters, Immigrants, and Sweet’N Low
Rich Cohen, a prolific writer, is the author of 13 books, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, and co-wrote the television series, “Vinyl.”
The Torah That Made History
It finally happened.
After a 26-year struggle, Women of the Wall read from a full size Torah scroll in the women's section of the Kotel.
Audacious Hospitality Means Asking Ourselves Difficult Questions
I am a queer Jewish woman of Color, and it is impossible to separate all of my intersecting identities.
Congress was busy in December. How did social justice issues fare?
Congress’s last week in session in 2019 was dramatic, tense, and consequential for millions of people in America and around the world.
Sample Pride Shabbat Sermon I
Mendel Hirt’s Diary: A Canadian Jewish Tale
Garden of Sharon: A Community in Life Is a Community in Death
I’ve often wondered what it is like to be buried in the local Jewish cemetery that is a part of a much larger non-denominational facility in Long Beach, California.
Facing Our Faults on the Other Side of the River
The stories in Genesis are heavy with human experience; they turn on every conceivable emotion, and life and relationship challenge. In this way, Torah in general, and the Book of Genesis in particular, provide a spiritual mirror that reflects back to us our best, and sometimes most disappointing selves. ...In Jacob, who, in this week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, wrestled with the night messenger, we see ourselves struggling with great challenges that bring pain, but from which we might extract blessing.