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…
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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…
A Letter to the Rabbi Who Jump-Started My Jewish Journey You probably knew back then that I wasn’t close to being ready to fully accept…
Hannah Senesh: Speaking Her Truth, Her Emotions, Her Spirit ReformJudaism.org interviewed Lori Wilner, co-creator, and Lexi Rabadi, star of Hannah Senesh: A Play with Music…
A Letter to the Hillel Rabbi Who Jump-Started My Jewish Journey You probably knew back then that I wasn’t close to being ready to fully…
3 Things You Can Do Now to End Immigrant Detention We must continue to express moral outrage, hold our government accountable, and insist that immigrants…
Love Beyond Measure: Tishah B’Av, Tu B’Av, and Tel Aviv Pride As a queer rabbinical student, I felt that recent comments by an Orthodox rabbi…
Parashat D’varim: Escaping my Comfort Zone Eventually, I felt as if The Holy Blessed One had nudged me out of my rest, telling me that…
Mexican Shakshuka: Connecting to My Mexican and Jewish Identities through Food As Jews of a variety of backgrounds and histories, I see food as the…
A Renewed Jewish Call to End Gun Violence – and What You Can Do I will not mince words: the violence we witnessed this weekend…
Hope for Independence and Peace for All On Shabbat a group from Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the only Israeli non-profit allowed to enter Gaza,…