Making the Tradition What We Say It Is
Content warning: This piece names historical anti-Jewish violence and current violence in Palestine. Earlier this week, Israeli settlers carried out…
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Turning Our Dreams Upside Down
We have entered Adar, a month about which the Talmud teaches, “When Adar enters, joy increases” (Taanit 29a). The peak…
She Shall Inscribe Her Hand to God
For the last thirteen years, I’ve been an advisor to my Jewish friends, congregants, students and colleagues about their tattoos.…
Not a Rabbi, Not Yet a Rav
by Ren Finkel
After years of working in the service industry, making ends meet as best I could in the gig economy, I…
Ask, And They Will Tell You: Reflections on the Teshuva-Writing Collective
When I was 15, about nine months after coming out as a baby trans girl, I found my way to…
On the Table in Front of Us
Years before I entered a SVARA bet midrash, I learned a text from a friend, who learned it from a…
What Carries Us Through a Crash
by Maggie Kraus
On a cold and miraculous day last March, I lived out a fantasy I didn’t realize I had until it…
Questions, Practice, and Moving Toward Life
In June 2022, the On Being Project paused its weekly podcasts. The podcast’s host and executive producer, Krista Tippett, shared…
Healing, Heroes, and Holding Hands
by Jhos Singer
Julie (my practically-perfect-in-every-way spouse) and I have, over the past few years, gobbled up a series of action-y adventure type…
A Little More Darkness
An astrophoto of C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), taken by Kendra’s grandfather, Bill. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלקֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעולָם אֲשֶׁר…
The Uncountable Queer Contradictions of Rabban Gamliel: A Roundtable Discussion
Many thanks to Ren Finkel (our one and only Mishnah Collective Coordinator) for their visioning, support, and incredible hot takes…
The Needy for a Pair of Sandals: Jacob’s Unsettling, and Our Own
by Jess Belasco
One rather dark night in 2009, I sat on my bed in my college dorm room and typed out a…