Three years ago, in 2013, my husband David Elcott and I traveled to Ethiopia to witness the airlift of the last of the Ethiopian Jewish community to Israel. We didn't realize we could come face to face with heartbreak.

As a part of the Knesset’s summer session, Israel’s legislative body recently passed a law banning Reform and Conservative conversions at the state’s publicly-funded and maintained ritual baths, or mikvaot.

This summer, I began my rabbinical school studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Across the world, pride parades are often more than a celebration of the LGBT community; they can be acts of solidarity in the face of discrimination and fear. This was especially true in Jerusalem last week, when 25,000 people marched through the streets of

This blog originally appeared on ReformJudaism.org.

In children, the effects of trauma and displacement wrought on refugees from the Middle East are clearly evidenced.

When I embarked on my Birthright journey to Israel with URJ Kesher in December 2015, I packed my beloved tallit along with my Chacos and water bottle, but my tallit never saw the light of the Jerusalem sun.

Summer in Israel is probably best known for days at the beach, hiking in the hills and the many foreign tourists who come to visit the country. But the summer is also a critical time for Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, which meets for a three-month session

Late in January, the Israeli Government voted to approve a historic agreement to establish an egalitarian space at the Western Wall that would, for the first time in Israeli history, recognize the role of Reform and Conservative Judaism at the Kotel.

This post originally appeared on the Israel Religious Action Center's newsletter, The Pluralist.

The fourth book of the Torah has different names in English (“Numbers”) and Hebrew (“Bamidbar” - “In the Desert”).