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When is it "a time to die?" • Rabbi Rachel Timoner
This might be one of the most important columns that I have ever written.
I wrote this, and created the accompanying podcast, because I want to help p…
3 years, 1 month ago
Should Judaism disrupt your life? • Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
Here is a new Jewish party game.
Gather a bunch of friends around a table, and everyone must complete the following sentence:
“The Jewish people should…
3 years, 3 months ago
Why right-wing populism should worry us all • Professor Marcia Pally
I love malapropisms.
My favorite: A number of years ago, a bar mitzvah kid was leading services from an earlier Reform prayer book, “Gates of Prayer.”…
3 years, 3 months ago
Why every Jewish kid goes on Birthright • Len Saxe
In honor of my niece’s return from her Birthright trip — which has become an American Jewish rite of passage — I talked with sociologist, Len Saxe, a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Israel. Relationship: Complicated • Gil Troy
It’s not the usual venue for it — that would be a coffee place on Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem, but I spent about an hour talking with my friend a…
3 years, 4 months ago
When cancel culture invades a family • David Bernstein and Rabbi Amy Wallk
This podcast will begin with a sad story — about a family in turmoil. Their story mirrors what is happening in the larger society — the struggle over…
3 years, 5 months ago
How to bend and not break
Jews are now in the process of finishing the festival of Sukkot.
We have been shaking the lulav, the palm frond.
What is the greatest quality of the lu…
3 years, 7 months ago
When Jewish leaders say “I was wrong”
I love that old song by Player: “Baby Come Back” — especially when the singer says: “I was wrong…”
It is not that easy to say. But, we do. Because we …
3 years, 7 months ago