The Next Generation: Organizers and Activists Learn the Ropes
January 21, 2009 By 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, a dozen bleary-eyed idealists were already milling around, chewing absently on bagels and sipping from little orange juice cartons. Sunlight...
View ArticleHow Do You Say ‘Charge It’ in Yiddish?
April 22, 2009 Chalk it up to the recession; it’s making all of us behave in unexpected ways. The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, a not-for-profit organization founded a century ago by socialist,...
View ArticleDarwin and God–-For Kids
November 20, 2009 Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith By Deborah Heiligman Henry Holt and Co., 272 pages, $18.95 Children’s book author Deborah Heiligman has been interested in religion since...
View ArticleUncertain Territory: Conservative Judaism’s Pioneering Gay Rabbinical...
December 8, 2009 When the first openly gay rabbinic students came through the doors of Conservative Judaism’s Jewish Theological Seminary in 2007, there remained in the back of everyone’s mind one...
View ArticleRabbinical Student Heads Up the Fight For Gay Marriage in New Jersey
December 23, 2009 Steven Goldstein jokes that his office in suburban New Jersey is “like the Jewish Museum of Montclair.” A sage-looking rabbi peers down from a lithograph on one wall, and a print of...
View ArticleEarning College Degrees Behind Bars
December 30, 2009 Woodbourne, N.Y. — It’s a Friday afternoon in December, and history professor John Fout is leading the students in his course, “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust,” in a spirited...
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View ArticleA Tree Evangelist Who Connects Heaven and Earth
June 16th, 2010 During a Sabbath evening service one Friday in February, Seth Goldstein and his 9-year-old son, Ozi, sat with their eyes closed in the synagogue in Olympia, Wash., where Goldstein is...
View Article‘Our Bodies’ Gets an Israeli Makeover
October 18, 2011 If you’re a “woman of a certain age” in Israel, you don’t have a straightforward term like “menopause” to refer to that stage of life. In Hebrew you’re stuck with gil ha’blut, which...
View ArticleWhen Part Is Lost, What of the Whole?
June 29, 2012 The World Without You By Joshua Henkin Pantheon, 336 pages, $25.95 Leo Frankel is dead. He died on July 4, 2004, while on a reporting trip in Iraq. The action of “The World Without You”...
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