One of my rabbinical school classmates is Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the Ugandan Abayudaya Jewish community. His brother JJ, it turns out, has
A year and a half ago, I had the great honor of being part of a conference at Barnard called “Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational
Turns out there have been a lot more female poskim in Islam than previously thought. Looks like they’re giving Bruriah, Asenath Barzani and Ray Frank
PBS’ “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” did a story on the whole gay ordination debate. For those of you who still haven’t had enough of this
The good Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David is opening a marriage center for engaged couples in Jerusalem. Here’s the flyer; click on it to see the
The current issue of Shma: A Journal of Jewish Social Responsibility is all about charismatic leadership–a crucial issue with which the Jewish community hasn’t yet
Very exciting–the uh-may-zing Bar Ilan University Jewish text database, featuring just about everything you could think of and a lot of stuff you couldn’t, is
The Forward reports, Two major new demographic studies estimate the American Jewish population at well above 6 million people, indicating a growing Jewish community that
I haven’t seen anything up here about the Judith Regan drama that’s been unfolding, so I figured it was time to post. This is a
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