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Rabbi Ima: The Kids Are Alright

Posted on August 19, 2016

When your mother is a rabbi… by Jane Calem Rosen Mom’s a Conservative rabbi. So what’s that like? “Sometimes, I forget she’s a rabbi, because she’s just my mom and not in the pulpit,” Yael Marans, 18, of Teaneck, NJ, said of her mother, Rabbi Amy Roth. Aware of the irony, she added, “But then, one Continue Reading »

Why Not For Girls?

Posted on April 9, 2016

The knotty road to getting girls to assume rituals  once reserved for men by Rachel Pomerance Berl Whenever I drape my tallit over my shoulders, I feel like God is over me,” says Talia Shapiro, 13, of Bethesda, Maryland. But wearing the ritual garment to synagogue is a tricky matter for Talia. It’s not so much Continue Reading »