Listen: The Power of Tekiah Gedolah
“Wake up, wake up, you sleepers from your sleep, and awake you slumberers from your slumber.” (Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Teshuvah 3:4)
Gay Pride in Israel: Tel Aviv Hosts Global LGBT Leadership Conference
Seated around one half of a large table in a meeting room were members of the Knesset and their representatives from every political party except for the ultra-Orthodox. Filling out the table were a dozen transgender teenagers and their adult leaders.
Israelis Are Among the Happiest People in the World... No Joke!
Here's something that you probably don’t know about Israel: Israelis are very happy. In fact, they are among the happiest people in the world – far happier than Americans, and a bit happier than Canadians.
100 Years After WWI, Its Effect on Reform Judaism is Still Felt
By August 1915, World War I was raging in the most densely Jewish areas of Polish and Lithuanian Russia on the dreaded Eastern Front. On the Western Front, the fields of Belgium's Flanders region were soaked with Allied and Central Powers blood.
What Makes a Dessert Jewish?
I’m a big fan of a monthly magazine called Our State, all about North Carolina – a wonderful home for our family for 16 years. Their cover last February set up the challenge "Pie vs. Cake."
A Life-Changing Question: For Whom Are We Responsible?
Before leaving for 10 of the most memorable days of my life with Mitzvah Corps Costa Rica, Rabbi Asher Knight left my fellow participantds and me with an important question to consider throughout our trip: For whom ar
Precious Gems: Experiencing the Best Choral Music Our Tradition Has to Offer
Ever get an earworm, a song that keeps popping into your head again and again?
It's Time to Be Fully Inclusive of Jews with Disabilities
When I first began my career at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, more commonly known as the RAC, I served as its associate director.