Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen has written an interesting piece on whether or not there’s real hope for an American Neo-Musar movement. The whole piece is here,
Anat Hoffman, who is often the most public face of Women of the Wall (Nashot HaKotel), was arrested this morning during WoW’s Rosh Hodesh Av
On June 1st, queer Jewish spirituality outfit Nehirim and NUJLS (the National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students) announced that they were going to merge, becoming
The Women of the Wall just sent out the following memo: MAY 13th — Noa Raz, a Conservative Jew in her early thirties who lives
From today’s Nutjob Anti-Semites With Scary Amounts of Power files, Salon reports, Last week, retired Bishop Giacomo Babini of the Italian town of Grosseto told
Since we’re ecumenical folks around here, and since Tefillin Barbie is such an old friend of ours, I thought it might be nice to note
This merits a post of its own, but briefly, a new bill has decided to fly in the face of halakha and distinguish converts from
Below is an article (tshuvah) by Rabbi David Golinkin of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem–the seminary that trains Masorti (Conservative) rabbis in Israel. I don’t
As the very good dlevy notes in his post about the recent Boston event, Jay Michaelson and I have this ongoing machloket (Torah debate) about
A Nazi group in Colorado has adopted part of the state highway. A spokesman for the group says the group is “doing good things.” Be’col