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A Spring Reading List for Shevat: Renewal and Equality
While it might still be January, the days are ever-so-slowly getting longer and many of us are looking forward to spring. The natural world will ...
Exploring Judaism LGBTQ+ Writers Fellowship Application 2026
Exploring Judaism LGBTQ+ Writers Fellowship Application Information Create the Jewish internet you want to see. The Exploring Judaism Writers Fellowship is a paid, online, four-month, ...
OLD Exploring Judaism LGBTQ+ Writers Fellowship Application 2026
Exploring Judaism LGBTQ+ Writers Fellowship Application Information Create the Jewish internet you want to see. The Exploring Judaism Writers Fellowship is a paid four-month cohort-based ...
Exploring Judaism LGBTQ+ Writers Fellowship 2026
The EJWF is a 6-month cohort-based fellowship for rabbinical students to cultivate their professional spiritual voice and share their Torah.
Victims and Victimizers: Acknowledging Our History of Slave Ownership on Passover
On Telling and Not Telling Our Full Story In Part 1, we spoke of the Passover Haggadah’s two origin stories. One, in accordance with Shmuel, ...
Victims and Victimizers: A Social Justice Reading of the Haggadah’s Two Origin Stories
On Telling and Not Telling Our Full Story The Passover Haggadah promotes two Jewish origin stories. The dominant story is Avadim hayinu, which relates how ...
Jewish Trauma: Antisemitism in Birmingham, AL
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 ...
Exploring Judaism Writers Fellowship Cohort 1 – 2024-2025
The EJWF is a 6-month cohort-based fellowship for rabbinical students to cultivate their professional spiritual voice and share their Torah.
A Tevet Reading List
It’s the month of Tevet! Tevet falls in the heart of winter in America—a cold and rainy month. The Talmud (Megillah 13a) refers to it ...
Why Are So Many Transgender People Converting To Judaism?
In 2021-22, I interviewed 45 transgender Jews from across the US. Around 33% of participants had converted or were in the process of converting to ...
