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Musician John Schott is the mind behind an upcoming all-night rendition of "'Round Midnight." (Photo/Cookie Segelstein)
Posted inMusic

Theolonious Monk’s masterpiece becomes an all-night Shavuot musical meditation

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inTorah

For a relationship with God, we’ve got to make progress every day

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen May 20, 2022May 19, 2022
The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the group where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
Posted inU.S.

More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Forward May 13, 2022
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

We cannot teach Torah by avoiding portions we don’t like

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
(Photo/Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inTorah

Why we tear an item of clothing at a Jewish funeral

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon May 6, 2022May 5, 2022
A crowd gathers outside the Supreme Court on May 2, 2022. (Photo/RNS-AP-Alex Brandon)
Posted inUncategorized

The Christian right’s abortion policy isn’t in my Torah

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and RNS May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
A 1690 illustration of the constellation Taurus, this Hebrew month's ruling sign, by Johannes Hevelius.
Posted inAstrolojew

Jewish horoscopes: When you get that feeling, you need Iyar’s healing

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude May 2, 2022
red curtain
Posted inTorah

If you’re closed down, maybe it’s time to open up your ‘curtain’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 29, 2022April 28, 2022
Zvika Krieger, the new spiritual leader of Chochmat HaLev, has brought Jewish spirituality to many milieus — including leading Shabbat services at Burning Man in 2018. (Background photo/Sasha Juliard)
Posted inBay Area

Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley’s ‘graying’ Renewal synagogue, names Zvika Krieger new spiritual leader

by Dan Pine April 25, 2022April 25, 2022
People surround a Seder plate at the Shabbat Tent at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. (Photo/RNS via Instagram-@chrism_arts)
Posted inTorah

The popularity of Passover defies the odds

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein April 22, 2022April 21, 2022

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