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“Love your neighbor as yourself” is our favorite quote from this, very weird, parsha. It is also the mantra of our congregation. But getting to the weird part, YHWH is forever screeching that she is our one and only god. This week, however, She commands us to send offerings to another deity! Azazel is a [...]

This is worth cross-posting from jspot: Rabbi Jill Jacobs gives us Letty’s List, written in response to Newsweek’s unfortunate Top 50 list:
From Letty Cottin Pogrebin:
(Jill’s note: granted–neither Devora Steinmetz nor Devorah Zlochower are rabbis, but given that both function as such in important ways & otherwise deserve to be on any list of Jewish spiritual [...]

I honestly can’t remember now what I was searching for online when I first stumbled on this website. I’d never heard of Green Burial before, but being an environmentalist as well as someone who believes in planning ahead, I was intrigued. By the time I’d finished reading through all of the very extensive information on [...]

for poetry month (why april, by the way? ‘the cruelest month’? ‘with his shoures soote’? please.), here’s the text of a talk by irena klepfisz - a fantastic poet in yiddish, english, and both at once, as well as an insightful essayist and deeply committed radical - from a 2006 conference at barnard college called “Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations”. at the bottom is a poem from one of klepfisz’s books. a complete transcript of the “Changing Culture” panel that klepfisz spoke on (and the rest of the conference) is available online here.

“Bring out the priests!” Hashem has established herself in her new earthly home. She’s placed her meal orders and now explains when and how her food will be acquired, which involves a bit of humiliation from Moses brother, the High Priest. She seems to simultanoously elevate and insult Aaron and his sons. But at least [...]

Yes, you’ll know all too well if you’ve been following the Jewish news how the intermarriage debate raged into the public sphere again in the last month as a result of Steven Cohen’s latest report, “The Two Jewries“. This time, I decided to respond by writing an op-ed to the JTA, and I saw [...]