Arts and Culture

In Song Together: For Linda Hirschhorn, Music is a Path to Transformation

By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Harmony is like drash. Singing a song simply is like pshat; harmonies give you the chance to interpret text. If you hear a lyric, especially sung in counterpoint, the words coming at a different time, you’ll get a different experience of what the words might mean, what’s important. Major or minor, syncopated or lullaby: those communicate so much. It’s important to understand the text, to try to find how my song matches my understanding of the text.

God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | New Haven

By Zeek

Please join Zeek founding editor Jay Michaelson for a lively discussion based on his new book God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI)
Sunday, January 22, 2012, 10 am
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT

God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | Philadelphia

By Zeek

Giovanni’s Room Sunday, January 15, 2012, 5 pm 345 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Life and Action

Jewish Education for a Time of Wandering

By Daniel J. Libenson

If we are not guided by a philosophy of Jewish education—a big picture idea of the aims of education and the best strategies to achieve those aims—much of our day-to-day work is wasted (at best) or counterproductive (at worst).

God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | Norfolk

By Zeek

Congregation Ohef Shalom
Sunday, January 8, 2012, 10 am
530 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk, VA

Faith and Practice

Tzedek and Chesed: Rethinking the Relationship between Advocacy and Service

By Sidney Schwarz

Through a retelling of the history of Panim, founder Sid Schwarz offers a new take on how to do social justice work.

Faith and Practice

Why Jewish Environmental Education Matters

By Nili Simhai

When we hear the words “Jewish environmental education,” we often only hear “environmental education” and not “Jewish education.” It’s easy to think of environmental programs as a fun add-on, rather than core, to Jewish learning. That is a mistake.

Faith and Practice

In the Image: A Jewish Theology to Confront the Bullying Epidemic

By Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin

We all know the problems of Leviticus 18 for LGBTQ Jews. Here, Margie Klein shows that Talmud provides a Jewish theology against homophobic bullying.

Arts and Culture

Winners of the Anna Davidson Poetry Prize

By Dan Bellm and Jehanne Dubrow

The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize for Poetry on the Jewish Experience has been awarded since 1987 and is funded by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. We are pleased to publish the winning poems here, by Dan Bellm, Jehanne Dubrow, and Anna Torres.