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For most of my life I have...
During the earning years, financial priorities for individuals are in two phases: First, finding a home and navigating life on one’s own; and second, starting and supporting a family with all their related expenses and needs.
Nonprofits also...
JCRC responds to Senator’s tweet
On July 4th, Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted the following quote, which he attributed to founding father Patrick Henry, “This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the...
Every year we invite Elijah to our Passover seders, setting out a glass of wine to welcome him upon arrival. The guy never shows up. Rude. But you know who shows up uninvited all the time? Anxiety. So rude.
It just pops in like a nosy neighbor who...
This story originally appeared on My Jewish Learning.
(JTA) — Next Thursday is Tisha B’Av, the day on which Jews traditionally commemorate the destruction of the two ancient Temples with fasting and other modes of self-denial. The goal of these...
Eva Fogelman, Menachem Z. Rosensaft
• Published July 18, 2023
(JTA) — When the U.S. Supreme Court sided last month with a Colorado web designer who refuses to do work for same-sex couples because of her religious objection to same-sex marriage, it risked opening the floodgates to a host of discriminatory acts...
Obviously, I love Israel, the national embodiment of the Jewish people. No other place on earth provides the cultural atmosphere — religious, traditional, non-religious — with thousands of years of history confirmed in archaeological discoveries and...
Concerning the Jew, Leo Tolstoy wrote: “The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the...
In the summer of 2005, my family moved from St. Louis to Seattle. A few weeks later, we went for the first time to the Seattle Center to see the Space Needle and the International Fountain. When we arrived, we saw that the entire area was filled with...
Sarah Imhoff, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University
• Published July 7, 2023
“Genderqueer” and “nonbinary” are contemporary terms for people who don’t fit neatly into male or female categories. But acknowledging that not everyone fits neatly into those two groups has a much longer history than you might suspect.
As...
This is a true story.
Several years ago at a school awards assembly, a teacher/administrator/principal type gave an opening speech. Said educator was known for being nervous when addressing big groups. That, combined with too many notecards, produced...
By Rabbi Yosef Landa, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 21, 2023
Despite significant progress in fighting antisemitism over the past decades, recent years have borne witness to an alarming increase in antisemitic incidents.
Jews around the world and across the United States have been targeted by acts of violence,...
