Ideas

Bishop Mariann Budde angered Donald Trump with her inauguration sermon. Rabbis like me should have such courage.

The clergy’s job is to challenge, to ruffle and to advocate for basic humanity, writes the founder and director of a center for progressive Jewish text study

Ideas

An installation in Pennsylvania marks a milestone in the journey of Orthodox women rabbinic leaders

Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, creates another crack in a persistent glass ceiling.

Ideas

Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

The German-Jewish political theorist, who wrote about the uses of misinformation under totalitarian governments, is riding a wave of popularity.

Denver Jewish Day School moot court students.

Outside my day school bubble, I felt a surge of Jewish pride

‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes

Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice

What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people

My Solomon Schechter school embodied a bygone American, Zionist and New York Jewish dream

The Borscht Belt hotels were cornerstones of Jewish family life that have no real replacement

The Lower East Side anti-Jewish riot that changed the way Jews do politics

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