Rabbi
‘A lot of work to do’: A Black female rabbi on the anti-racist progress the Jewish community has, and hasn’t, made
“Race is new for white people, and that’s part of the problem. Jewish whiteness and the Jewish relationship to racism is different.”
After the Boulder shooting, I ask the Four Questions
These past few days, as Passover approaches, I am thinking of the Four Children of the Haggadah.
Meet the rabbinic breakout star on the Clubhouse app
‘Clubhouse and Judaism go together like peanut butter and chocolate,’ says Rabbi David Wolpe, who teaches Torah on the audio-only networking app.
A rabbi moves Holocaust survivors to front of vaccination line
The COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Holocaust survivors in a local synagogue started out a bit ominously: A police cruiser was stationed outside and a bomb-sniffing German Shepherd was deployed inside, zealously looking for explosives.
As more American Jews intermarry, seminaries face calls to ordain intermarried rabbis
Lex Rofeberg was a junior in college and thinking about becoming a rabbi when he hit a roadblock: he was dating a non-Jew.
Rabbinical seminaries take steps to admit students with learning disabilities
Jonah Sanderson expects to get a Masters Degree in Jewish Studies this year from a Los Angeles rabbinical seminary. Not especially noteworthy— until you learn that Sanderson, 32, has had lifelong struggles with learning disabilities.
You’ve probably never heard about the world’s first female rabbi. Sigal Samuel wants to change that
“We don’t have to react as if it’s some kind of crazy thing for a woman to lead a spiritual community.”
Why did these rabbis seek a pardon for Elliot Broidy?
When former President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts in office, granted an executive pardon to confessed felon Elliott Broidy, the White House cited letters in Broidy’s support from some unusual sources: five Los Angeles rabbis.
In California, rabbis ask why clergy aren’t in first — or second, or third — group for COVID-19 vaccination
Why don’t clergy get vaccination priority in California?
This Hanukkah, we have to embrace both darkness and light
I found myself staring at the Hanukkiah. Instead of relishing in the idea that one light dispels the darkness, I found myself savoring the shadows.