2020 Clergy Toolkit
From Political Scientist to Reform Seminary President
We recently sat down with Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., the new president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, to ask him about the path that led to this role.
Slaughter Does Not Honor Anyone: Remembering that Fateful Day in Pittsburgh
As I was leading Torah study at our synagogue nearly a year ago, an evil man murdered my friends and co-religionists because to him, Jews are strangers and dangerous.
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.
Sample Pride Shabbat Sermon I
Mendel Hirt’s Diary: A Canadian Jewish Tale
What Ancient Tents of the Israelites Teach us About Modern Privacy Issues
“They Sat in the Back”: A Poem for Those Killed in Pittsburgh
This poem, written by a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, commemorates the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in October 2018.
Nakedness and Vulnerability
In Leviticus 18:3, in Acharei Mot, it is written, "You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of Canaan to which I am taking you."