Lech Lecha: Beginning to Form A Fulfilling Halakhic Process
By Liana Wertman As a female, queer, leftist, and observant Jew, entering into traditionally Halakhic spaces has been an incredibly...
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Rebecca Chess
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
What's Love Got to Do with It?
On the connection between Song of Songs and Pesach By Rebecca Chess Spring is here! And thus Passover is fast approaching. We prepare our...
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Robindra Nath Banerji
- Apr 4, 2022
- 3 min
Drash It and Receive A Reward!
This week’s parshah, M’tzora, is one of the most weird and unrelatable in the entire Torah. It deals primarily with three subjects:...
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Rebecca Chess
- Mar 8, 2022
- 3 min
Leviticus: How Do we Deal with Difficult Texts?
Rebecca offers us suggestions and tools to help us dive into challenging texts, whether thats in Leviticus or beyond.
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Robindra Nath Banerji
- Feb 16, 2022
- 7 min
Ki Tisa: Casted Bodies
It’s radical to read Torah to its roots. When the Kabbalists imagined the Tree of Life, they placed its roots in the world of...
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Max Antman
- Feb 7, 2022
- 5 min
Widening the Circle
Contributing writer Max Antman relates Parasha Tetzaveh to Black History Month considering legacy as motivation for progress.
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Rebecca Chess
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
Finding Solace in the Psalms
Rebecca reflects on their feelings and where they are finding comfort after the events at Beth Israel in Colleyville Texas.
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Rebecca Chess
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
The First Human
This week is transgender awareness week, it is the week leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that our community...
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Liana Wertman
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Finding Sarah
Many people know of the story where our Patriarch Jacob gets the name Israel, but allow me to share it again here. In Genesis Chapter 32,...
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Liana Wertman
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
Leah, Through Her Children
"Now, seeing that Leah was disfavored, HaShem opened her womb, while Rachel was childless." (Genesis 29:31) Leah was given to Jacob...
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