Stories & Articles

In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Judith Plaskow reflects on the haftarah for Ma’sei and the troubling use of sexualized metaphor to depict Israel’s ...

In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Ira Wolfman reflects on the haftarah for Pinhas and the lesser-known portrait of Elijah—not as a hero of ...

In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Judith Plaskow reflects on the haftarah for Balak and the tension between divine anger and prophetic beauty. Through ...

In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Joanne Palmer reflects on the haftarah for Hukkat and the women whose names and voices are absent. Through ...

Tonight, my wife Sarah and I will bathe our kids, light candles, make kiddush and motzi, read one more book (and then a bonus book, ...

Explore your relationship to Torah and mitzvot with BJ rabbis, fellows, and staff; and learning to read Torah. At the culmination of learning, there will ...

The opening stanza of Yehuda Amichai’s famous poem “A Man in His Life” captures much of what I was feeling last Thursday night, as Israel’s ...

Once again, we enter Shabbat this week holding our breaths. We are living through an especially scary and uncertain time—nationally, globally, as Jews, and as ...

Creativity takes many forms—literature, writing, visual arts, music, dance, theatre, discussion, games, problem-solving, and more. Our goal is for the students to build a joyful ...

The sign read: “Courtyard Concerts—Today at 6:30!” A few weeks ago, as I was walking down West 85th Street on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, this ...