Love Thy Neighbor: A Look at Interfaith Issues in Israel
On the plane back from my year in Israel as part of my first year of rabbinical school, I had the privilege of sitting next to a man who had participated in a Christian mission trip in Israel.
Reflecting on Interfaith Issues in Israel
Advocacy 101 from the Daughters of Zelophehad
Advocacy 101 from the Daughters of Zelophehad
This Shabbat, in parashah Pinchas, we read the story of the daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1–11).
Happy 50th Birthday Medicare and Medicaid!
Reform Movement Condemns Series of Suspicious Church Fires
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Words Not Spoken . . . Words Not Heard
Words are powerful. In Genesis, chapter one, God creates through words: “God said, ‘Let there be light!’—and there was light. . . . God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,’. . . . God now said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image,’ ” (Genesis 1:3, 6, 26).
Protect LGBT Students from Discrimination
New Report Addresses Racism and Gender in Israel
Several years ago I attended an urgent Knesset session un which MK Danny Danon told a hushed crowd that Jewish girls, mostly new immigrants, were being kidnapped in the middle of the night by Arab men.
The Challenge of Righteousness
The wording of the verse gives rise to this debate. The text states that “Noah was a righteous man,” but immediately follows with the phrase “in his generation, he was above reproach. . . ” All of us, including the ancient Rabbis, are left to wonder if Noah is exceptional or not, if his righteousness would be universally righteous or simply righteous in his time.