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Every year, I struggle with the image of God as king on Rosh HaShanah. Historically, kings were responsible for protecting their subjects, keeping law and order, and serving as the final judge. I am uncom...

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Each year, I make my way to a neighbor’s house to haul fallen branches and cut tomato vines and uprooted non-native plants up a ladder and weave them together into a patchwork roof. Under its skhakh—this leafy covering—the sukkah smells...

My partner is my very favorite person. By last count, he has 389 lovable qualities. It so happens that being Jewish is not among these.

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The Conservative Movement has long frowned upon intermarriage, and therefore, relationships like mine. There is an abiding belief that a Jewish person who marries outside of the faith will l...

As I sit on the Tayelet and look out at Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, the view is breathtaking and overwhelming. It just never gets old. The view isn’t just beautiful, though with every turn of my head, the landscape tells a story.

I look to my right and I can see past the golden Judean desert, into Jordan, straight to Har Nevo, the mountaintop from whi...