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An Artistic Eruv in Jackson, Mississippi

Rachel Jarman Myers — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:52:31 EDT

My� project was inspired during a meeting when the Figment team was trying to figure out a way to create a border around the festival, which was t...

Assimilation and Romanticizing the Past

Joanna Hershon — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:11 EDT

My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every weekend and�at least in the confusing pa...

Orthodox Parents, United by Love of Torah...

MBSD — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:37:36 EDT

A peaceful Shabbat walk in the woods. I neared a bubbling brook, stood on a footbridge and gazed down at the streaming water, contemplating the be...

The Danger of Communal Exclusion

Ben Greenberg — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:00:09 EDT

Two moments of communal life have come to my attention recently that speak to the dangers of exclusion in the building of successful community that ar...

A Rabbi Reflects on the Journey Towards Marriage Equality

Rabbi Melissa Simon — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:07:37 EDT

The journey of the Israelites and the counting of the Jewish people have striking parallels to the work for marriage equality in Minnesota. The Is...

The Jews of Poland: Recollections and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane

Rebecca Miller — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:18:14 EDT

When I was researching my�last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might like:�The Jews of Poland: Recollections ...

Shabbat Menu for Memorial Day

Shannon Sarna — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:51:09 EDT

Doesn't it seem like Memorial Day has arrived a bit early this year!? We are barely past Shavuot and now a wonderful three day weekend looms before us...

How can one make moral decisions?

Alana Suskin — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:19:10 EDT

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and agnostics are more motivated by empathy...

An Insult and a Very Jewish Conversation

Joanna Hershon — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:05 EDT

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked like an angel. He insisted on escorting me to my destination...

Celebrating Harvey Milk Day

Melanie Weiss — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:08 EDT

[caption id="attachment_4295" align="aligncenter" width="551"] Between 1953-54: Harvey and frie...