Open any newspaper, or click on any online news site, and, virtually every day, you will find descriptions of “DEI” as an extremely harmful phenomenon.
Antisemitism is a charged word these days. Like many charged words, it means different things to different people. When I was a child growing up
There are rebels in the Torah.
There were rebels against the cultures and norms of the time. Avraham and Sarah rejected polytheism, Yehoshua and Caleb rejected the faithless notion that the Land of Canaan could not be conquered, and Moshe rejected the cruel, domineering, and inhumane culture of his Egyptian upbringing.
Why are pronoun pins helpful and why did we make these Hebrew pins? How might they create more welcoming Jewish spaces?
Feminist Torah is an approach to how we relate to Torah and a set of commitments about which Torah to draw from in our teaching and learning.
This an exploration of my “temple envy” through the emotions of grief, wonder, and desire for Jewish unity during a recent vacation to Nikko.
Elevating the Matriarchs is important. Rabbi Goodman encourages this with a midrash on Parashat Shemini, urging that representation matters.
The bombing at Hebrew University was a transition moment in my life. I got by for about a month and then started to break down. I had extreme anxiety.
As God commanded Moses to include Caleb and Joshua, we can imagine the same command applies to us. We can seek to include people.
It is largely agreed upon that the types of speech encompassed by the biblical prohibition fall into three categories of increasing severity.
Lashon hara I’to·elet are those occasions when it is permissible, or even required, to speak about other people.
Human beings have been given the divine power of speech to enable our participation in the ongoing work of sustaining God’s creation.
As online communication becomes more complicated and sophisticated, so too do the laws governing defamatory speech.
While writing a teshuvah on changing our language for aliyot to kohenet from bat kohen, Rabbi David J Fine, PhD, reflects on egalitarianism.
This is why I think my family’s tradition of inviting a non-Jew each year to the Passover seder is important.
In the game of Jewish geography, you connect with who you don’t know by connecting through who you do know. But is the game good for us?
Being called to Torah is a moment of sacred encounter. Here’s how to call Non-Binary Jews to the Torah based on the CJLS Teshuvah in 2022.
Linda Sussman reflects on the story of her journey and the lessons about inclusion she learned along the way.
Aimee Close shares her story of becoming a synagogue member and the power and importance of Pride Shabbat and being welcoming.