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By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
The e-mail conversation occurred after I sent a coworker the headline “Brooklyn Pride interfaith service canceled, allegedly over host synagogue’s ‘pro-Israel positi...
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
This past Memorial Day weekend, I continued a tradition my mom and I started years ago: we would visit Westlawn Cemetery, stopping by her parents, my father and my little ...
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the G...
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Essays by I. B. Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote so many essays for the Yiddish press that many were published under pseudonyms. The third book of his essays to appear ...
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Religions change and develop across time. That is certainly true of Judaism, although it can be difficult to understand its earliest manifestations since they greatly di...
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Biblical times
The debate continues in scholarly circles over whether the Exodus from Egypt actually occurred. For many writers that debate is irrelevant: the Exodus has ...