Articles
Using Personal Prayer for Healing
Spiritual support groups give people who are suffering from pain or loss an opportunity to access the tools of Jewish healing.
By Carol Popky Hausman, Ph.D.
Divrei Torah
Magic and Ritual on Yom Kippur
The magical layer of the Yom Kippur ritual helps us connect to the power of the Day and the mercy of God.
By Perry Dane
Prayer
Oseh Shalom
By Barbara Holender
Meditation
By Avi Bloom
Sundry Blessings
By Lynn Levin
Interview
Conversations with Rabbi Ira Eisenstein
Thoughts on theology, prayer, ethics and halakhah, and change within Judaism, from a noted teacher and thinker. The founder of the Reconstructionist movement reflects on the development of the movement, and on the influence of Mordecai Kaplan, his close collaborator and father-in-law.
By Gilah Langner
Fiction
Samson’s Honey
The riddle of the honey and the mystery of the long hair – and oh! those Philistine women!
By Mark Mirsky
Ritual
A New Take on Kiddushin: Halakhic, Egalitarian, Non-Heterosexist
Can a marriage ceremony be egalitarian and non-heterosexist, and – at the same time – halakhic? An innovative ritual, attentive to the principles of Jewish law and contemporary sensibilities, leads to a consideration of what halakhah means.
By Shalom Flank
A New Reading of Haftorah on Rosh Hashanah
A chantable English translation of the haftorah for the first day of Rosh Hashanah – the story of Hannah. Trop marks included!
By Clare Feinson
Midrash
Juxtapositions: Midrashic Images
Paintings that explore parallels in the lives of Biblical ancestors and events in contemporary life.
By Janet Shafner
Eve
After their exile from Eden, Life and Earth must begin anew. The magic of language and a helping angel point Earth to her journey of discovery.
By Amy Bitterman
Sarah Laughs
By Susan Thomas
Ha-Makom
By Barbara D. Holender
Wrestlers
By Pete Wolf Smith
Poetry
Withdrawal
By Robert Manaster
Sketches for an Oral Scripture
By Ira Stone
Photography
Ervah: Hidden Sensuality
A New York photographer dons the head coverings of different religious communities.
By Na’ama Batya Lewin
The Lighter Side
New York Gothic
A mystery of power, minyans, and gabai’m
By Cary L. Friedman