Hasidism and “Nature”: Negation and Affirmation

By Jay Michaelson

Would the early Hasidic masters be environmentalists?

Media and Tech

Human Canvas

By Mim Weisburd

Meet Mim, an artist who uses digital technology to explore the sacred.

Faith and Practice

Queer and Practicing: Reclaiming the Lost Spiritual Path of Chutzpah

By Matthew Schultz

To find a place for LGBTQ Jews in Judaism, we must regain the chutzpah of our ancestors, the Talmudists who took seriously Deut 30:12, “the Law is not in Heaven”

Life and Action

Queer Jewish Community Remixed: Organizing without a Critical Mass

By Ri J. Turner

At the intersection of queer and Jewish, how can LGBT Jewish students build a movement to empower themselves?

Faith and Practice

“Straight-Welcoming?!” – Creating an Inclusive Community

By Joshua Lesser

Inclusivity runs both ways: how one LGBT shul became straight-welcoming

Faith and Practice

Parenthood and Prayer

By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

We bring in the New Year with a babe, as the Velveteen Rabbi ponders the meaning of prayer.

Arts and Culture

What Have I in Common with Jews? A Review of Radical Poetics

By Thom Donovan

Kafka asks, What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself!” This thought guides the essays collected in Radical Poetics, a new anthology by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris.

Arts and Culture

Poem: Disgrace

By Daniel Morris

Daniel Morris, Radical Poetics co-editor, offers Zeek an example of radical poetics.

Arts and Culture

Poem: THERE’S ONLY ONE GOD AND YOU’RE NOT IT

By Stephen Paul Miller

Radical Poetics co-editor Stephen Paul Miller offers Zeek an example of radical poetics.

Faith and Practice

The No Rent Rule: What Happened to Jewish Ethics?

By Rabbi Haviva Ner-David

When I lived in Jerusalem, I felt that I was in the majority, and oppressing a minority. Living in Galilee, I am even more humbled. I feel that I am in a minority oppressing a majority.