July 13, 2022 — Rabbi Rachel Weiss challenges the assumptions of how a synagogue should operate by highlighting multi-generational programming and interfaith activism at Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) in Evanston, Ill.

December 9, 2013 — Ritualwell’s executive editor, Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, sat down to talk with rabbis Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., and Sue Levi Elwell, Ph.D., editors of the newly published anthology Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives. The following is an edited version of the conversation.   DG-K: Tell me about the genesis of this project.  

June 10, 2022 — God is a process at work in the universe, within and among us, that makes for the fulfillment of our human potential.

June 10, 2022 — The biblical response to contagion: Self-quarantine voluntarily, even if you personally have nothing to gain from doing so, for the good of the community.

November 14, 2025 — The fundamental flaw is not the arrogance of the claim, troublesome as it is, but that the claim requires that there was a Divine chooser who made a choice.

June 10, 2022 — The idea of chosenness is a barrier to a world in which every human being is seen as made in the image of God, worthy of respect and honor.

May 8, 2025 — For many people, the liturgy seems disconnected from their concerns, hopes, dreams and challenges.

February 11, 2025 — Halakhah is in the doing, and our ability to pass that practice down to the next Jewish generation depends on whether or not we can give it the significance it had for the lives of our ancestors.

August 17, 2022