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Gender Inside and Outside the Camp

Apr 17, 2026 By Joy Ladin | Commentary | Metzora | Shabbat Rosh Hodesh | Tazria

Most benei mitzvah would do anything to avoid having to talk aboutParashat Tazria-Metzora, a section of theTorah that focuses communal attention on intimate changes in human bodies. InLeviticus 13, God orders Israelites to notice and monitor intimate changes in one another鈥檚 bodies鈥攎enstruation, discharges, eruptions, inflammations, hair growth, 鈥渟welling, rash, discoloration,鈥� and so on. For example,Leviticus 13:2commands:

Recasting Lot’s Wife

Nov 7, 2025 By Rabbi Ayelet Cohen | Commentary | Vayera

In difficult times it鈥檚 natural to want to look back. Our memories can have a way of blurring the edges, so we remember things the way we have categorized them in our minds, without the details that don鈥檛 fit our story. If we鈥檙e remembering warmly, we may blur outthe parts of the story that don鈥檛 hold up; if it鈥檚 a bitter memory we may leave out the parts that included kindness or helpfulness.

On the Perils of Pregnancy: A Letter to Rivkah

Nov 29, 2024 By Rabbi Annie Lewis | Commentary | Toledot

Before you bravely took leave of your family, they blessed you that through your line would come thousands upon thousands of descendants. When you struggled to conceive, Yitzhak pleaded with God for you to bear children.

The Torah records how the boys thrashed about in your womb. 讜址讬执旨转职专止爪职爪讜旨 讛址讘指旨谞执讬诐 讘职旨拽执专职讘指旨讛旨. You cried out, 讗执诐志讻值旨谉 诇指诪指旨讛 讝侄旨讛 讗指谞止讻执讬, 鈥淚f this is how it is, why do I exist?鈥� (Gen. 25:22).

Henrietta Szold’s Zionism and Ours

Nov 11, 2024 By Shuly Rubin Schwartz | Public Event video | Video Lecture

Henrietta Szold, 91快播鈥檚 first female student, was the most learned Jewish woman in America in the first half of the last century. Attracted to the Zionist dream as a teen in Baltimore, she channeled her intellect and love for the Jewish people into Hadassah. Defying gender norms and expectations, she transformed the way Jewish women thought about their capabilities and the way many Jews approach their relationship to Zionism.

Innovations in Ritual and Halakhah (Law) Around Jewish Divorce

Jul 22, 2024

What are the essential components of an egalitarian marriage ceremony and divorce? How can we ensure that the Conservative/Masorti movement’s ways of Jewish marriage and divorce reflect our spiritual values and ethical ideals? Rabbi Pamela Barmash, PhD and Rabbi Karen Weiss Medwed, PhD discussed the progress that has been achieved in this area and the challenges that remain.

Religious Misconceptions: American Jews and the Politics of Abortion

Jun 24, 2024

We begin by tracing the history of how American Jews contributed to reproductive politics by developing first amendment-based arguments for abortion rights. We also discussthe ways in which reproductive politics transformed American Judaism. In particular, we look at the many rituals that Jewish feminist leaders developed to support people undergoing abortion care and galvanize activists working for reproductive rights.

Gender, the Bible, and the Art of Translation

May 20, 2024

How should English translators of the Hebrew Bible approach questions relating to gender? When should gender-inclusive language (such as 鈥淕od鈥� or 鈥減erson鈥�) be used for references to God and human beings, and when is gendered terminology (such as 鈥淜ing鈥� and 鈥渕an鈥�) called for historically and linguistically? What does it mean to faithfully render biblical Hebrew into contemporary English, and how can translators share their methodologies and choices with readers and communities? We explore these questions, focusing on the newest Bible translation released by The Jewish Publication Society,THE JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition.

Who among Us Is Holy?

May 10, 2024 By Talia Kaplan | Commentary | Kedoshim

When God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites 拽讚砖讬诐 转讛讬讜, 鈥淵ou shall be holy,鈥� the injunction is to be delivered 讗侄诇志讻指旨诇志注植讚址支转 讘职旨谞值讬志讬执砖职讉专指讗值譀诇, 鈥渢o the entire community of Israel鈥� (Lev. 19:2). This week鈥檚 parashah opens with a message that seems easy to get behind. The question, though, of what it actually means to be holy, is answered by commentators in a way that paints a more complicated picture. Rashi explains that being holy entails refraining from forbidden sexual relations and transgressive thoughts, which are delineated both in this and the previous parashah.