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Introducing “Lights in the Forest: Rabbis Respond to Twelve Essential Jewish...
In anticipation of the forthcoming publication of Lights in the Forest: Rabbis Respond to Twelve Essential Jewish Questions, CCAR rabbinic intern Andy Kahn interviewed editor Rabbi Paul Citrin. “Lights...
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Hin’ni: The First Step Into the High Holy Day Pulpit
Last year I was in Jerusalem for the High Holy Days. The experience of being in Israel for this focal point of the Jewish year, especially as it coincided with my entering into Rabbinical school at...
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A New Year, A New Experience: Leading my First High Holy Days with Mishkan...
In an interview for Sh’ma Journal in 2012, Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi stated that he saw the Hasidic idea of “Rebbe,” as opposed to the ordained leadership role of a rabbi, as a fluid one. Rabbi...
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Seker: A New Take on Progressive Jewish Outreach
At its outset, the Reform movement placed great emphasis on aesthetic and decorum. Fitting in, becoming a seamless part of the fabric of the larger society, was of the highest importance. Almost 200...
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The Message of the Sacred Calling: Our Journey to True Equality
I grew up in a time and place where it was made perfectly clear that boys and girls were equal; that anything a boy could do, a girl could do, and vice versa. To exclude someone based on gender was...
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Na’Aseh V’Nishma: Podcasting the Aural Torah
In an age of video and universal sensory stimulation, podcasts are a strange niche. They require us to only listen, and as the success of so many of them has shown, there is an audience that wants to...
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The Sacred Calling: Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling of Traditionalism
“Ultimately, I think that anyone of any level of Jewish literacy can find something in The Sacred Calling that will inspire them to see the possibilities offered by the Reform world to join this fight,...
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Why I Wear a Yarmulke
While I was riding the subway home from school yesterday, six very large white men stepped onto the subway together. There was no act of violence, no hate speech, no physical sign of them having any...
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Neither Babylon nor Jerusalem: Jewish Argentina
America and Israel loom large in the contemporary Jewish world. Conversations about global Judaism tend to focus on one or the other, or the connection between the two, but rarely touch on the other...
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Fragile Identities in Dialogue: What is Zionism today?
I grew up in an age when the State of Israel was touted as the panacea for the lost American Jew. We celebrated Yom haAtzmaut as fervently as we celebrated Purim. The most exciting skits put on by our...
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