Given the options, I’m glad I don’t fit in. I’m glad I keep my eyes open. I’m glad institutions make my skin crawl, that being in church—or anyplace that feels like a western, Christian, colonized knockoff—doesn’t feel right to me.
While I had begun to figure out my Judaism in college, Rick had been redeveloping his own Christian faith. I met my wife through this involvement, and now Rick had met his as well.
What's the point of prayer if we can't reach across the aisle to one another to create a sense of wholeness?
In 2010, two extremely different Jewish-content films competed for Best Picture at the Academy Awards: Inglourious Basterds and A Serious Man.
The story of why, and how, Yocheved founded a school called Lamplighters-- and what keeps it going strong.
There is no path. The path is many paths. It is an empty field. It is an entire twelve lane highway.
My youngest brother always had a spacial place in my heart. I watched him grow through years of yeshiva and then, little by little, as his relationship with Orthodox Judaism shifted and morphed into something that belongs to only him and G-d.
From Rabbis to community leaders to philanthropists, it seems we are enamored with outreach and the unaffiliated Jew. Yet, I ask myself: What about those that are already on the 'inside,' practicing Judaism? Are they getting the same care and opportunity? And whose responsibility are they?
Eric reports on the fruit of his lifelong search for mystical moments.
Jewish, Muslim, and Christian women basked in 48 hours of meaningful sensations - a phenomenon I pray was captured by the cameras for the world to see.
