In part inspired by the polemics that surround Hannukah, this year, for the first time since childhood, I reread the two books of Maccabees. I
by Geoffrey Adelsberg and Faith Carol Newton This is an article for Jews and allies who are desperate for a ceasefire in Israel/Palestine and who
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
I will not attend the “March for Israel” on November 14, and I did not attend the “March for Palestine” on November 4. I am
Quite a few religious Jews seem to be confident, for reasons I cannot wholly understand, that the wicked societies of S’dom and Amorah, which mistreat
by Aron Wander, Hebrew College rabbinical student living in Jerusalem For the past week and a half, I’ve been wishing things would go back to
In 2008, when the Israeli army bombed Gaza in an attempt to eradicate Hamas, they killed more than a thousand Palestinians, most of them civilians.
To affirm the obvious, the past week has been an emotional cocktail of grief, shock, horror, fear, anger, and confusion from the current, grotesque wave
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
