artistic image of shabbat candles, a watch, and a night sky, challah and grass, that says "dream jewish disability justice" and "radical reverent rest"

Shabbat, Chronic Illness, & Radical Rest

By Sophie Hulet February 15, 2024

“I have seen Jewish wisdom anchor chronically ill and disabled people amidst a society that is built, in many ways, to exclude us.”

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The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist

By Victoria Dozer November 27, 2023

“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ –  we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”

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An Environmentalist Attempts a Prayer

By Lauren Elise Fisher September 29, 2023

“Let us dance, feel, celebrate the rarity of this fleeting life before we return to stardust in the cosmos / Let us usher our descendants in for a good time.”

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Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

On Jewish Catholic Guilt

By Catherine Horowitz July 20, 2023

“By distancing myself from Christianity, I’ve distanced myself from a part of my mom’s life. I’m still trying to put together the pieces I’ve missed.”

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Jewish Food Rituals in the Age of Diet Culture

By Gila Axelrod April 3, 2023

“I relapsed almost every Passover.” For some, the holiday of liberation can feel like Mitzrayim. Experts weigh in on how to find freedom.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Intermarriage

By Drew Perkoski November 17, 2021

Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.

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The Medicine In My Jewish Self, The Torah In My Lakota Practice

By Samuel Elijah Rose April 21, 2021

“When you pray the Lakota way, do you feel like you’re praying to the same God?” 

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Revisiting the Jewish Question

By Jonah Lubin February 25, 2021

Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”

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The “Ish” In Jewish

By Jillian Crocetta February 16, 2021

Wrestling with a multi-faith identity.

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"Suspension" by Ali Zak

12 Tips for High Holidays Balance and Presence

By Raffi Levi September 23, 2020

In this excerpt from a collaborative High Holidays reader entitled “Our Still Small Voice”, Raffi Levi brings Jewish spiritual wisdom on enoughness and healing for readers looking to set an intention for the whirlwind Days of Awe.

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Shabbat Shira: My Kind of Judaism

By Iliana Eber August 17, 2020

“Still, the images—Portland tweens and Seattle teens and Polish and British and American and Israeli and Hungarian and Canadian staff singing their hearts out in languages familiar and foreign, skipping around with friends and strangers turned best friends, busting moves in sync or at random without blinking an eye—remains starkly etched in the crevices of my mind. Finding my place in this global network of people and identities reminds me just how much room there is under the umbrella of Judaism.”

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Torah and Tampax

By Emily Rogal November 13, 2017

An amorphous red glob has invaded my underwear. It collects in a pool, spreading across the polka dotted fabric with what my eleven-year-old brain declares a vengeance. I look down into the liquid substance that has turned my Wednesday underwear into an abysmal crime scene. From the upstairs bathroom, I call for backup in the…

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Did Jews For Jesus Get Jewish Millennials Right?

By Sara Weissman November 6, 2017

I know, I didn’t think I’d be writing that headline today either. But a Jews for Jesus study may have actually made an interesting insight about Jewish millennials. What am I talking about? Jews for Jesus recently commissioned a study surveying 599 Jews born from 1984 to 1999, using a legit, often religion-focused polling firm…

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Poem: Equilibrium

By Rachel Chabin June 28, 2017

In the beginning God created the heavens and a round earth But for five thousand years we couldn’t see our world’s true extent. Blind and unknowing, we drew our flat paper maps with heavy lines and solid edges, Contained, finite, concrete, And when we were cast off to its four unfamiliar, foreign corners We fixed…

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