Mazal Tov to the Velveteen Rabbi family on the arrival of their son, Andrew Wynn Zuckerman! May he grow up healthy and happy in a world filled with peace, where everyone has the freedom to write in blogs and say, think, and believe however they wish.

OK, enough about controversial topics for the time being. Last week, thanks to a link to this post included in my daily Google alert for the word "Judaism" (more some other time about that treasure trove of an email), I discovered this wonderful...

This is old news now (a whole week) but worth spreading at any time. A woman was detained (not arrested, but taken to a police station for questioning) at the Kotel for wearing a tallit. I respect the fact that some find it offensive to see a woman in...

(And finally, continued from here, the rest of my thoughts about that Shabbat talk from a week and a half ago.) The speaker's conclusion: These two areas, education and outreach, must become a priority if liberal Judaism (meaning, Conservative,...

One last piece written in class, about darkness and sunrise: ---- In college I was a painting major, which meant that I had to fit dozens of hours each week of creating art into a week that already contained dozens of hours of reading the Iliad and...