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Is the Jewish Community a Mean Girl?

By Rabbi Samantha Kahn

“The organized Jewish community is nothing more than the mean girls from high school.” What?! I think I literally...

Identity, Religion, Religious Life, Spirituality, Synagogue

Why I Am a Unitarian

By Sara Holtz

It is a sunny spring Sunday in Sacramento. As has been our custom for the last twelve years, my wife and I and...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Relationships, Religion

Couples are marrying with or without us. Let’s help.

By Rabbi Keara Stein

The debate in Jewish communities about interfaith marriage is heating up. Rabbis and Jewish professionals are...

Clergy, Clergy Weddings

rings

Why Do Jews Marry Catholics?

By Karen Goldberg Goff

A recent landmark study of Americans’ religious behavior confirmed what many observers of interfaith marriage...

Marriage, Relationships

Blessings: Immersion in the Mikveh for Conversion

By Mayyim Hayyim

April, 2013 Reproduced with permission, based on an original from Mayyim Hayyim. Once you walk down the seven...

Blessings, Mikveh

Welcoming the Sabbath

By Andi Rosenthal

In July of 1999, at the end of my very first week at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial...

Shabbat

The Conversations We Should be Having

By Rabbi Richard Address

…with Grandparents with Grandchildren of Interfaith Marriages In my travels to congregations and Jewish organizations...

Clergy, Grandparents, Professional Development

couple holding hands

Why Choosing Love Didn’t Mean Conversion for Me

By Emily Mace

Although I am the half that’s not Jewish in an interfaith marriage, my husband never put conversion on...

Conversion, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

Should We Pray for Bad People?

By Jane Larkin

Shortly before the inauguration in mid-January, I was contacted by a Chicago Tribune reporter about a story...

Spirituality

Change Afoot in the More “Conservative” Communities

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission It’s been quiet...

Professional Development

The back of a Rabbi talking in a group people.

Coming Full Circle

By Kathy Bloomfield

Twelve years ago on a Yom Kippur afternoon, at the request of my rabbi, Steven Silver, I stood on the bimah...

Conversion, Mikveh, Religious Life

How to Pick an Interfaith-Friendly Synagogue

By Jordyn Rozensky

When I asked my partner who is not Jewish if we could start visiting synagogues in hopes of finding a formal...

Couples, Newlywed, Synagogue

Can Kids (or Anyone) Learn Prayer Through Osmosis?

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Osmosis is a subtle or gradual absorption or mingling. Sometimes we joke that you can’t learn something...

Parenting, Synagogue

Why a Raisin Has Never Tasted So Good

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

I always spend some time as Rabbi in Residence at Camp Tawonga in California each summer, and it is always...

Camp, Parenting, Religion, Spirituality

Listening to Christian Spirituals at the Jewish Cemetery

By Jessie Boatright

On my mom’s birthday last week, I left the house to go to the cemetery first thing. Being there, walking in...

Death & Mourning, Death & Mourning Stories, Mourning, Parenting

Judaism Without Walls

By Jared David Berezin

Jared and his (now) wife Laurie being married by Rabbi Lev Baesh on Laurie’s parents’ farm in Pennsylvania Why...

Dating, Identity, Relationships, Religion, Synagogue

Healing the World is Our Every Day

By Amy Beth Starr

Last Spring, I had the privilege of representing my synagogue at a remarkable social justice conference organized...

Advocacy

Does Spirituality Have to Mean God?

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Last week, my son started wondering about the edge of the universe. What is at the end? Is there an end? What...

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Religious Education, Young Kids

Why I Go to Church

By Rabbi Sarah Tasman

You might find it hard to believe but I love going to church. I don’t go very often, but the times that I have...

Clergy, God, Identity, Religion

Charity Begins At Home, Part 2

By Jane Larkin

My son helping to pack snack boxes at the North Texas Food Bank in January. Last night, my family watched NFL...

Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

Finding Prayer at Creating Change

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

From left: Rabbi Shoshana Conover from Temple Sholom, Rabbi Judith Golden from Or Chadash & Rabbi Ari Moffic...

Professionals Stories

The Real Story of Hanukkah

By Rabbi Sarah Tasman

In rabbinical school, I learned what you might call the “real” story of Hanukkah. I also learned about the “real”...

Hanukkah, Religion

Why We Decided to Join a Synagogue for Our Daughter

By Elizabeth Freid Vocke

Mirabelle at JCC pre-school This past August, when I started talking about and planning for the High Holidays...

Parenting, Religious Life, Synagogue

My Mission to Welcome

By Rabbi Sarah Tasman

This blog post originally appeared at Rituallwell.org One of my favorite parts of being a rabbi and the director...

Clergy, Clergy Weddings, Resources

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