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Interview with Interesting Dudes: Rabbi Steve Greenberg

Steve Greenberg is the first gay Orthodox rabbi, which seemed reason enough for us to want to talk to him.

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Who’s Your Favorite Rabbi?

Our friends over at MyJewishLearning are doing something pretty cool: in light of Newsweek's list of America's Top 50 Rabbis, they're offering up a chance for readers to vote for their favorite rabbis.

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The Rabbi-to-Be’s Job Interview

My name is Patrick Aleph, and I would like to be your rabbi.

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Interview with Interesting Jews: Rabbi Heidi Hoover

Rabbi Heidi Hoover is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Emeth v’Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek in Brooklyn, NY, but unlike most rabbis, Hoover grew up the daughter of a Lutheran pastor. We sat down...

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Rabbis Like Kveller, Do You?

Kveller is part of a non-profit organization that depends on donations from people like you to cover 85% of its budget. This High Holiday season, we’re reaching out to our readers and asking for your...

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Bikini Line Grooming & Other Conversion Questions

As a candidate in a conversion class at my local Reform synagogue, who can I ask the pertinent questions? I’m not talking about which prayer to say over challah, either. They give us plenty of books,...

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Behind the Scenes of My Daughter’s Baby Naming

Time flies! It’s hard to believe I have a 3-month-old baby and will be heading back to work after the Thanksgiving holiday (boo!). Since she wasn’t a boy, we weren’t rushed to have a bris, but I always...

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Returning to the Mikveh After Giving Birth

Once a month when I was kid, I would watch my mother remove her nail polish, gather her small bag, and head out from home in our station wagon after dinner. We always knew where she was going. Even...

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The Rabbi’s Wife is Breaking Up With Christmas

I think Christmas and I are breaking up. Itʼs not an easy thing to say. But nevertheless, there it is; itʼs time to end my Christmas love affair. My rabbi/husband will be thrilled. I suppose a little...

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What to Do About the Bris When He’s in the NICU

For most Jewish couples expecting a son, the decision to have a bris isn’t really a decision at all. It is a time honored tradition, a mitzvah, a tenant of the Jewish religion. I, however, wasn’t so...

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When the Rabbi’s Wife Doesn’t Believe in God

What do you do when your power goes out for six days in the middle of an epic ice storm, coating the streets of Toronto in a polar vortex, and you’re 40 weeks pregnant? And then you give birth to …...

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How Being the Rabbi’s Gay Son Taught Me to Be a Good Dad

I was 2 years old when everything changed. My father, who was not yet 30, was a rabbi at a synagogue in Budapest. After multiple harassments, he decided with my mother that America would be a much...

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