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Thanksgiving Supplement to Birkat Hamazon

To be inserted at the same point as one would add for Hanukkah or Purim

Judaism on Our Own Terms: Radical Inclusivity on College Campuses

Jews on college campuses across the continent are forming independent groups they call Judaism on Our Own Terms. The impetus is often constraints by institutions about what topics can be discussed and who counts as a Jew.

God Is the Space Between Us

God is the space between the one who needs and the one who is needed.

Tevet: A Liberation in Knowing

"Jacob teaches, / We weave / And reweave, / The narratives / Of our lives"

Grieving through the Omer

What do we do when our Jewish practices are painful, when instead of anticipation and joy one is filled with hesitancy and dread?

How Trump and Netanyahu made American Antisemitism Come Alive

For four years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has equated Jews with the Israeli government, while U.S. President Donald Trump has made common cause with white nationalists. I wish more Israelis understood why this was so terrifying.

Seeking Light #After Cancer

They kept telling me that once we got through the terrible summer, the “summer of yuck” as we called it, that I would find light, happiness and health. They tried to reassure me, as we checked each week of chemo off the calendar, that I was one step closer to relief, to a happy ending, to life after cancer. They promised – everyone promised – that I’d feel better, that I’d resume work and parenting and everything in between, and that I’d be able to put cancer far behind me and move on.

A Mother Talks About Her Daughter's Babynaming

A rabbi discusses her desire to incorporate the notion of covenant into her daughter's babynaming

Fostering Across Generations: A Letter to our Foster Daughter

As part of a ritual we created to say farewell to our foster daughter, Dafna, below is the story of my family's history of fostering across the generations, from escaping the Nazis to offering shelter to teenagers fleeing Vietnam. We read this during the goodbye ceremony. Photo by Nomad Nirvana Photography

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