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Engaging Interfaith Families for the High Holy Days: A Checklist for an Inclusive Synagogue Experience

By Tema Smith

This is the perfect inclusive synagogue checklist to read through for the High Holy Days. The High Holy...

Professional Development, Professionals, Resources

Growing Inclusivity

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. The interfaith marriage...

Denominations, Professionals, Yom Kippur

My Husband’s Not Jewish So I Can’t Be a Rabbi? That’s Crazy!

By The Jewish Daily Forward

This article was reprinted with permission from The Forward The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in...

Professionals, Professionals Stories

Greeting Each Other at Shabbat Services

By 18Doors

An Interfaith-Inclusive Reading for Clergy to Welcome a Congregation on Shabbat Welcome to our synagogue on...

Professionals, Religious Life, Shabbat, Synagogue

Where is Your 3rd Space?

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

I spend a lot of time at Starbucks. All different Starbucks locations. Lately, I have been seeing signs about...

Family, Professional Development, Professionals, Religion, Religious Education, Synagogue

Embracing Our Differences

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

The following is a sermon I gave at Saint Elisabeth’s Church in Glencoe, Illinois, on February 22. Rev. Daphne...

Blessings, Clergy, God, Identity, Professional Development, Professionals, Religion

An Inclusive Holiday Wish

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

My Facebook feed tends to get filled with rabbis and other Jewish professionals’ lives. This is the circle I...

Advocacy, Identity, Professional Development, Professionals

Interfaith Language Sensitivity

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

We here at 18Doors believe, like the rabbis of old, that language is extremely important. The rabbis of the...

Professional Development, Professionals

Rabbi Ari Moffic’s Sermon on Today’s Judaism

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

The following is my sermon given on March 7, 2014 at Temple Beth El in Munster, IN. The weekly Torah portions...

Professional Development, Professionals, Religion, Religious Life, Resources, Synagogue

Who is IN and Who is OUT?

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

I recently attended a think tank talking about how to expand “our” reach to interfaith families, Jews of all...

Clergy, Professionals, Resources

Jewish Educators: Keeping It Real

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

My last blog post was a plea to program providers to look at their enrollment forms with new lenses this summer....

Clergy, Professionals, Religious Education, Religious Life, Resources

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