Why Do Some Holidays Get Two Days?
Do you have a question you’d like to ask the Rabbi? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I was looking at a Jewish calendar this month and it said that Shavuot […]
June 6, 2025
June 5, 2025
Talk to Me Like I’m Three: A Preschool Teacher Reminds Me of My Humanity
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May 16, 2025
How Do I Make My 12-Step Program Feel More Jewish?
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I’m in a 12-step program, and sometimes it feels like it’s overly Christian. How can I take a […]
May 6, 2025
Don’t Let the God You Don’t Believe In Get In the Way of the God You Can
Historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari has become one of the most profound thinkers of the 21st century, examining the ancient past to predict and foreshadow what is yet to […]
May 2, 2025
Ask the Rabbi: Do Jews Really Control Hollywood?
Rabbi, Sometimes we hear grumblings about how Jews control Hollywood and the media. It does feel like there are a lot of Jews in movies and television. Why does this […]
April 25, 2025
Ask the Rabbi – Why all the animal sacrifice in the Torah, and what do we do with it today?
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I recently attended my congregation’s Torah Study, where we were reading from the book of Leviticus. It seemed […]
April 18, 2025
Ask the Rabbi: Will an Easter Basket Confuse My Jewish Children?
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I am Jewish, and my wife was raised Christian. She no longer practices, and we agreed that we […]
April 11, 2025
Ask a Rabbi: Kitniyot on Passover
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I have heard that some Jews don’t eat rice or corn during Passover, while others do. How do […]
April 8, 2025
In an Age of Distraction, Judaism can be the Still-Small Voice We Need
We live in an age of distraction. This is Chris Hayes’ finding in his new book, The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. He explores in […]
March 20, 2025
Ask the Rabbi: Is Keeping Kosher Going to End My Friendship?
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! I made a new friend at the JCC who is Orthodox. I invited her over to my house […]