High Holiday Lessons from ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Recuperating from a broken ankle this summer, I had time to catch up on my binge…
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On Stage Now: Two Plays Ask Us to Look Beyond Our Prejudices Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival, has dedicated the season to…
What I Learned at a Jewish Camp in France At Mahanetzer Camp in the south of France, more than 150 campers and 40 staff celebrate…
We Must All Expect More: A Reform Jewish Letter About the Public Discourse Our statement is rooted in the themes of repentance and reflection, all…
How I’m Tapping into My Jewish Values to Help Save Lives When 17 people were killed in a shooting at our school, we were devastated…
It’s Elul: 6 Ways to Get Ready for the High Holidays Elul, the Hebrew month that precedes the High Holidays, is traditionally a time of…
How to Help Ensure Israel Offers Equality for All Critiquing Israel was not something I ever felt was appropriate for me to do, but there…
September 1, 1939: Another Day of Infamy It is worth remembering another day of infamy – September 1, 1939 – the day that set in…
The Power of Words – and Music – in the Book of Deuteronomy ReformJudaism.org caught up with Cantor Sacks to talk about her career and…
We Must Not Willfully Hide from a Truth In 2018, the Knesset adopted the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” nearly…
8 Ways to Connect With Jewish Life On Campus It’s that time of the year again: moving into new dorms and apartments, catching up with…
What Being a Practicing Reform Jew Means to Me When a non-Jewish acquaintance asked me: “Are you a practicing Jew?” I answered “Yes,” but the…
Raising a Prophetic Voice for Immigrant Justice As Reform Jews, we have a unique obligation to care for the immigrant because we, too, were immigrants.…
A Shabbat Picnic Showed Me Jerusalem’s Diversity On a recent Shabbat, I spent the time with friends in the park. Within a few steps of…
Why Pray to a Silent God? Why pray to a silent God who is not looking down at us and waiting to hear what we…
3 Jewish Lessons for Your Child’s New School Year How can you, as a parent, also infuse this time of year with meaning and with…
Why Be in a Chavurah Group in Your Synagogue? When we were new to our synagogue, it was forming chavurah groups. As soon as I…
This Tu B’Av, Rethink Your Biases about Straight and Queer Couples Created to commemorate the day that peace was restored between the Jewish tribes, allowing…
How to Turn a Day of Love into Acts of Self-Love Perhaps the Hebrew month of Av invites us to find a balance between the…
Writing From the Edge: Calls for Inclusion in New Israeli Poetry Israeli poet Adi Keissar’s description of the world – the messed-up world – rings…