This week marks the fifth yahrzeit of my friend and colleague, Rabbi Fred Elias. To mark this milestone, I reunited with ...
With a performance by drag artist Simply Barbra, a screening by The Neighborhood emphasizes the movie musical's Jewish, feminist and queer themes.
At a 1,000 Strong gala in NYC, auctions, techno music and sushi bars motivated young supporters of Israel and celebrated Jewish resilience.
Officials settled a lawsuit claiming they violated open meeting laws to secretly develop ethnic studies courses with ...
Question: As I came into the synagogue, they were about to recite Keri’at Shema. I had as yet not put on my tefillin. What should one do in that situation?A ReaderVia E-mail ...
The settlement in response to allegations of Brown Act violations and antisemitic course content could serve as a model to ...
If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.
The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...
MISHPATIM: The prohibition against boiling a kid in its mother’s milk never made sense to this rabbi — until a party about 20 years ago.
Swedish police said on Friday they have apprehended three men near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on suspicion of preparing to commit violent crime, but said it was too early to say whether the ...
Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...