Fifth Anniversary of Virginia Tech Massacre
Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the horrific shooting at Virginia Tech, where a mentally disturbed student named Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on his classmates, killing 32 and wounding 25 others.
VAWA Passes the Senate!
First Indictment for Anti-Gay Hate Crime Under Federal Hate Crimes Law
Kevin Pennington, the alleged victim of the attack.
Commemorating World AIDS Day
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, I'm again struck by the final lines from American playwright Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.
For Our Creative Survival: Liberal Zionists Speak Out
The following column is part of a series. For more, go to Liberal Zionists Speak Out.
I am a Zionist.
Social Justice & America’s Top 50 Rabbis
Social Justice Gift Guide 5777
In search of a unique gift for the social justice junkie in your life? Look no further than our Social Justice Hanukkah Gift Guide, with eight suggestions full of tzedek – one for each night!
Turbulence in Sudan and South Sudan
Galilee Diary: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke
…So I know the sea was not split in vain Deserts not crossed in vain – If at the end of the story stand Daddy and the kid Looking forward and knowing their turn will come. -from "The Kid of the Haggadah" by Nathan Alterman (trans. Arthur Waskow and Judy Spelman)