Maybe not crazy, but illogical. I mean, why wait? If mercy and kindness, including kindness to animals, are EVER relevant, they are relevant now. You would think, right? Compassion towards people is good, compassion toward animals is good, and ...

The only difference between me and my first cousins is the last name. They have the Jewish family name, and I don't. My mother was Jewish; their fathers were Jewish, yet they are seen as "real" Jews, while nobody thinks of me as Jewish, ...

How much you wanna bet that Adam and Eve will be depicted as white? (even if in cartoon form.) Sounds pretty creepy, to me. Is this a recruiting film for the evangelical militia movement?

The most productive, inspiring, and truly useful definition of God came to me through a Jewish Renewal rabbi who says, to paraphrase the essence of his message -  God is not what happens to us, but how we respond to it. God is not about ...

veganesther: I've been a paying synagogue member for over two years where I have volunteered, produced a newsletter, served on committees, etc. I have also paid significant amounts of money to study with various rabbis, one of whom ...

I like seeing a side of Judaism that is not as uniformly white as people think it is in Ashkenazi America. When I was a kid, white Jews were not white, but that's a different issue. The subtext of questions about my appearance always seemed to ...