For years now, my main message has been one of nuance, of understanding, of making the effort to see a viewpoint that isn’t mine and
“If it is So, Why Am I?” Parashat Toldot, Genesis 25:19-28:9 Rabbi Gray Myrseth was ordained by Hebrew College Rabbinical School in 2017. Years ago, I
This coming Shabbat, Jews will begin the Torah again in earnest after the preview of the creation narrative that we received on Simchat Torah last
According to the Rabbinic source closest to the event, the reason Jerusalem was destroyed the 2nd time was because of the kind of interpersonal hatred
Why do we get rid of hametz (leavened products) for Passover? Joseph seems to be the first person in the Bible to accumulate grain and
PSA to my fellow progressive Jews: when you put together readings for the seder about the “contemporary 10 plagues”, listing out terrible things confronting us
By Rabbi David Polsky “My body, my choice!”–is a phrase often shouted by or written on the signs of people protesting against masking and vaccine
The second post of Jewschool’s this year recognizing and responding to the dark side of Purim While a famous Rabbinic teaching connects the joyous, raucous
The first of our submissions addressing the dark side of Purim Eliana Fishman lives in Washington DC and works in Democratic politics I grew
It is almost Tu Bishvat, the Jewish birthday of trees. Fruit bearing trees, to be more specific. In modern times, this means we gather to
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