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a colorful illustration of two men hefting a large branch with a large bunch of grapes on it
Posted inJewish Life

With faith, you can climb mountains and face down giants

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg June 27, 2024June 27, 2024
Barbara Cymrot, pictured in the Castro District of San Francisco, was one of the first parents to join Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco's LGBTQ synagogue. (Aaron-Levy Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPride

LGBTQ synagogue Sha’ar Zahav, once reluctant to welcome children, embraces its third generation

by Emma Goss June 26, 2024July 1, 2024
Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Posted inCommunity

Rabbi Burt Jacobson, a political activist and founder of Kehilla, dies at 87

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 24, 2024June 25, 2024
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)
Posted inUncategorized

Hebrew Union College to admit and ordain rabbinical students in interfaith relationships, ending longstanding ban

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer June 20, 2024June 20, 2024
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

We must savor the moments of harmony we are lucky enough to experience

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler June 20, 2024June 20, 2024
"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900. The biblical character of Samson is the best known Nazirite.
Posted inTorah

Judaism does not preach self-denial as the ideal way of life, but there’s something to be said for holy vows

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank at the Aquarian Minyan's Shavuot gathering in 1994. (Photo/Yehudit Goldfarb)
Posted inReligion

As Aquarian Minyan marks 50 years, its spiritual influence is felt far and wide

by Emma Goss June 10, 2024June 23, 2024
Marchers call for the release of hostages in Gaza at the annual Israel parade in New York City, June 2, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy JCRCNY)
Posted inReligion

‘Bring them home’ means different things to Israelis and American Jews

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 10, 2024
Holocaust survivor Henry Greenbaum of Bethesda, Maryland, shows his concentration camp tattoo to visitors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Photo/Flickr/Department of Defense/Marvin Lynchard)
Posted inTorah

You are significant as both an individual Jew and as part of the Jewish people

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
Crops growing at Givat Hen in Israel in 2013. (Photo/Wikimedia via PikiWiki CC BY 2.5)
Posted inTorah

This Torah portion’s vision of economic reorganization sounds a lot like socialism

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 23, 2024May 23, 2024

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