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A man and woman exchanging a Hanukkah gift in a bag patterned with colorful dreidels

Hanukkah: More Than Just Presents?

Katharine Nasielski

This weekend, we will gather together with family or friends (or, if you’re on the RAC staff, with 215 high school students at L’Taken) around the Chanukah lights, spin the dreidel, eat latkes and sufganyot and engage in the great “applesauce or sour cream” debate.

Rise up Maccabean Style for Rights of the Disabled

Rabbi Lynne Landsberg

Raechel Banks

The sages of the Talmud had a debate about how we are to light the Chanukah menorah: Should we begin with eight candles and remove one each night, or begin with one and add through the holiday?

Reform Jewish Leader Speaks at Chinese Embassy as Part of Torch Relay for Darfur

December 10, 2007

Saperstein: Lights—a symbol of freedom and hope.

UN Vote Calls Attention to U.S. Absence from Global Fight for Gay Rights

December 19, 2008

Saperstein: “It is shameful that the United States chose not to be a part of the first UN General Assembly declaration condemning state-sanctioned human rights abuses against LGBT people”

Good Morning Baltimore...Hebrew Day School

Fellow RAC Legislative Assistant Jonathan Backer and I had a great morning today visiting The Day School at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and talking with their seventh and e

Saperstein Joins Faith Leaders to Promote ONE Sabbath Initiative

December 4, 2008

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Be a Lamplighter: A Reflection on Newtown and Darkness

Rabbi Sari Laufer

I have a bunch of blog posts brewing in my head, but felt like I couldn't write anything until I wrote about Newtown. But, what could I say? What can I say?

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in the Pews: A Parent’s Perspective

As we approach Deaf and Hard-of -Hearing Awareness Shabbat, I am reminded of Leviticus 19:14, "You shall not insult the deaf."

Chametz (#BlogExodus, Day 4)

Rabbi Benjamin Sharff

One of my dear friends and colleagues, Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, has for several years now challenged us to blog Exodus. She has come up with daily themes.

Galilee Diary: Repairing the World

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)