November 7, 2023
Hamas rightly deserves global condemnation for its brutality in murdering over 1,400 innocent Israelis on October 7. Not since the Holocaust has this number of Jews been killed in a […]
November 6, 2023
This is a hard time for our people. The hardest in my lifetime. I believe that Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself, and I believe that […]
October 13, 2023
This Wednesday, I was proud to see the public show of support from the state of Minnesota to the Jewish state of Israel. On that day, the I-35W bridge in […]
October 10, 2023
My grandma never gave me toys for my birthday or for Hanukkah. I didn’t get books or action figures or video games or baseball cards or any of the things […]
September 22, 2023
In March, I had the good fortune to travel to the Deep South with 200 other Reconstructionist Jews from congregations around the country on a sobering yet uplifting journey that […]
September 15, 2023
“The place that those who do teshuvah can attain; — those who are completely righteous can never attain. Be-makom she-ba’alei teshuvah omdin ein tzadikkim gemurim ye-kholin l’amode.“ (Tractate Berakhot 34b) […]
September 15, 2023
Look around you on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur as the powerful, frightening piyyut (liturgical poem) of UnetaneTokef is sung during the Musaf prayer. This awe-inspiring section depicts how we […]
September 6, 2023
Bradley Cooper is producing and directing Maestro, the Leonard Bernstein story. Apparently, it’s a role he’s coveted for a long time, but for reasons one can only speculate about, he felt it […]
September 5, 2023
This piece originally ran on New Voices. TC Jewfolk is part of the New Voices Jewish Media Fellowship program. Subscribe to the New Voices newsletter. It’s not always been obvious to […]
August 31, 2023
Like it or not, “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah” not only exists but is soaring in popularity in both Jewish and secular circles. As Jews, whether we […]