Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger

The significance of Matan Torah is difficult to grasp in the modern day. Celebrating that ongoing relationship with God makes it accessible.

I, a Women of the Wall sympathizer, am not trying to 'liberate' you as an Orthodox Jew, but raise my status from second class to equal.

Whether in the boardroom or on the 'bima,’ the Jewish concept of 'brit’ demands we provide women equal opportunities to men.

We rabbis have the responsibility to stand up for what is right when no one else does.

Treating Women of the Wall like suspected criminals is no way for a Jewish democracy to operate.

The halakhic case for Jewish women in leadership roles: a response to Rabbi Shlomo Aviner.

Anat Hoffman, arrested last week for praying aloud at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, represents all those who want Israel to live up to its democratic ideals.

By choosing life, with its impermanence and imperfection, we relish in all of it.

While we are charged during Elul with relentless self-examination, it occurs within a relationship that is thoroughly grounded in compassion.

A reflection in the midst of ‘Bein Hametzarim’ on loss, renewal and the creation of a Torah of hesed.