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Why I love Jews by choice
The first conversion I ever performed as a rabbi was for a 45-year-old father of two who was in the final stages of liver cancer.
Rabbi Akiva’s gift to a ghost
“You shall teach your children diligently” (Deuteronomy 6:7). Rabbi Akiba traveled from town to town in Israel, teaching the Torah, judging cases, settling disputes, offering wisdom and listening to the stories of his people.
Raised with rabbis: One family's journey to share their faith
At Modern Parenthood we've been interested in how parents share their faith, or lack thereof, with their children. Our guest blogger shares how her family's relationship with religion has evolved.
The Torah of our lives: On writing the next chapter
“Boomers [people born between 1946 and 1964] are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living well and wholesomely into their 80s and 90s, if not beyond,” sociologist Steven Cohen writes.
Shavuot: The Giving of the Torah
Four local rabbi discuss the holiday of Shavuot...
Shmuley Boteach: ‘Cory Booker Is My Brother’
Author, spiritual guru to the stars and Republican congressional candidate Shmuley Boteach doesn’t want anyone using his friend Cory Booker’s recent campaign controversy for political gain–except for him. In the aftermath of the flap over Mr. Booker’s comments about the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital, Mr. Boteach wrote an op-ed in the Jewish newspaper Algemeiner ...
Temple B'nai Or honors mothers, fathers
On the Shabbat preceding Mother’s Day, Temple B’nai Or honored mothers and grandmothers with a flower, an aliyah to the Torah, a blessing and the gift of an individual or family photo.
Eitan Press: Time Spirals and Other Insights Into the Jewish Calendar
The shape of Jewish time is different. According to the teachings of the Torah, history does not unfold along a time-line but a time-spiral.
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld: An Unorthodox Cure for Insomnia
I know so many people who have all the pillows they need and yet have trouble sleeping at night; they walk through their lives sleep deprived. What many don't realize is that the Torah already told them why they can't sleep.
For Jewish transsexual teaching at Yeshiva University, no easy path to being a daughter
In this excerpt from Joy Ladin's new book, the author writes of how the Torah aided her journey of sexual identification.
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