Michael Rothbaum: The Chuppah That Held Us All: What We Found in Our Gay...
In short, we have been held and sustained by community before, during, and after our wedding. This community is not our “right.” It is our blessing. And our wedding could not have happened — not in any...
View ArticleSofie Werthan: Policing Pride
The theme of San Francisco Pride 2016 was “For Racial and Economic Justice.” Black Lives Matter was scheduled to be one of the parade’s grand marshals. However, divergent reactions to the Orlando...
View ArticleMike Rothbaum: The Big, Orange Shofar
If Donald Trump’s campaign was hoping for strong support from American Jews, they are surely disappointed. Trump’s support among Jewish voters is at an historically low 19%. There is an active website...
View ArticleThanissara Mary Weinberg: Trump: Jung’s Warning
Many politicians display egotistical personality distortions, some more than others. Trump, however, is of an entirely different order. Do we want a president accessing nuclear codes, shaping the...
View ArticleCharles Burack: On Turning Sixty: Counsel From My Inner Wisdom on How to Live
Trust that your sustained presence will take care of the fruits. Work in a relaxed yet alert way, knowing that insights are gifts bestowed when you let go and align. Meet challenges with possibilities....
View ArticleMarisa Handler: From Apartheid to Trump
So, on Tuesday night, I watched with shock as a man who is undeniably racist—not to mention misogynist and xenophobic—was democratically elected to the highest office in the country. No, he didn’t win...
View ArticlePew Research Center: Pew Report on Religion and Education Around the World
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 13, 2016) – Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling,...
View ArticleGilbert Caldwell: A Response to “Overcoming Trump-ism” and More
I have sought to encourage the denomination to remember its history of Bible-based discrimination against blacks and women, to thus acknowledge how we moved beyond that discrimination, and allow that...
View ArticleMiki Kashtan: Why Patriarchy Is Not about Men
I see this as the core source of violence: the physical, emotional, and spiritual brutalization of boys and men.
View ArticleJohn McFadden: Empathetically Explaining Weinstein: A Counter-Intuitive...
Prison is where Harvey Weinstein should be, because, for one thing, there is zero guarantee that he will stop preying on women.
View ArticleMiki Kashtan: #MeToo and Liberation for All
Most people seem to believe both that punishing men is successful at protecting and supporting women, and that nothing other than punishment could be. I question both.
View ArticleMandy Fessenden Brauer: Nothing to Say until Now
In this poem, Mandy Fessenden Brauer reimagines the experience of growing up in a boys' boarding school in light of the #MeToo movement: "I let it go on and on until it became / regular, like a glass...
View ArticleMike Rothbaum: The Big, Orange Shofar
If Donald Trump’s campaign was hoping for strong support from American Jews, they are surely disappointed. Trump’s support among Jewish voters is at an historically low 19%. There is an active website...
View ArticleThanissara Mary Weinberg: Trump: Jung’s Warning
Many politicians display egotistical personality distortions, some more than others. Trump, however, is of an entirely different order. Do we want a president accessing nuclear codes, shaping the...
View ArticleCharles Burack: On Turning Sixty: Counsel From My Inner Wisdom on How to Live
Trust that your sustained presence will take care of the fruits. Work in a relaxed yet alert way, knowing that insights are gifts bestowed when you let go and align. Meet challenges with possibilities....
View ArticleMarisa Handler: From Apartheid to Trump
So, on Tuesday night, I watched with shock as a man who is undeniably racist—not to mention misogynist and xenophobic—was democratically elected to the highest office in the country. No, he didn’t win...
View ArticlePew Research Center: Pew Report on Religion and Education Around the World
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 13, 2016) – Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling,...
View ArticleGilbert Caldwell: A Response to “Overcoming Trump-ism” and More
I have sought to encourage the denomination to remember its history of Bible-based discrimination against blacks and women, to thus acknowledge how we moved beyond that discrimination, and allow that...
View ArticleMiki Kashtan: Why Patriarchy Is Not about Men
I see this as the core source of violence: the physical, emotional, and spiritual brutalization of boys and men.
View ArticleJohn McFadden: Empathetically Explaining Weinstein: A Counter-Intuitive...
Prison is where Harvey Weinstein should be, because, for one thing, there is zero guarantee that he will stop preying on women.
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