Faith and Practice

A Father's Death Marks A Chance to Start Anew

Jewish mourning customs are designed to ease the grief of the bereaved. But what happens if there is no community? What happens to someone like me, hanging in twenty-something limbo, neither tethered to the family I came from or anchored to the one I’ve yet to create?

Faith and Practice

Worship for Agnostics: Building a Personal Relationship with a Nonpersonal God

By Jacob J. Staub

How can one believe in God, when all of the descriptions of God tell us more about the imagination and values of the believer than they do about the ineffable? The answer: if you can conceive of God, then what you conceive is not God.

Events

Philly, Oct 10: How Can a Religious Movement Succeed in a Post-Denominational World?

Authors

Please join Zeek and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for a panel moderated by Rabbi Jacob Staub with Rabbi Isabel DeKoninck, Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, and Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, President of RRC asking

“How Can a Religious Movement Succeed in a Post-Denominational World?”
Sunday, October 10, 7:00-9:30 pm
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
1299 Church Road, corner Greenwood Avenue, Wyncote PA 19095

Faith and Practice

The Hebrew Goddess: Complexity, Unity, Gender, and Society

By Jay Michaelson and Jill Hammer

Editor Rabbi Jill Hammer speaks with Jay Michaelson about the new Kohenet Siddur.

Arts and Culture

Infuse Your New Year with this Pomegranate-Vodka Recipe

By Hands of the Heathens

Try this recipe for pomegranate-infused vodka this New Year! L’Chaim!

Faith and Practice

Come Home

By Angela Himsel

Why should we not expect spirituality, demand it, of our religion? Isn’t that what a religion is supposed to provide?

Arts and Culture

SUGAR

By Laura Kina

Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii.

News and Politics

Pity is not Equality

By Rabbi Haviva Ner-David

I applaud the Orthodox clergy who recently condemned homophobia in their attempt to be compassionate, but is it healthy for families to be part of a community that they know accepts them only out of pity?

Arts and Culture

Yiddishland Comes to Memphis: A Review of Steve Stern

By Sanford Pinsker

While Michael Chabon is, at best, a Yiddish practitioner of the faux sort, Stern knows, (really knows), Yiddish. Ironically, however, this may be to Stern’s disadvantage.

News and Politics

Islamophobia, Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and a “New” Jewish Cause

Has Islamophobia replaced the Holocaust as the sign of a Jewish identity that always must be defined in opposition to the Other?