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Baylor, Sex, and the Bible

May 21, 2013 • Filed Under Baum's Blog • 0 Comments

College basketball season is over, but Brittney Griner is still making news.  Griner was a Baylor basketball star and now plays in the WNBA.  Apparently Griner’s coaches at Baylor told her to keep quiet about her homosexuality.  It makes me so sad to think that she was forced to hide part of her identity. Here is [...]

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The Tough Relationship Between Judaism and Infertility

April 25, 2013 • Filed Under Guest Blogs • 4 Comments

The Tough Relationship Between Judaism and Infertility by Rabbi Carrie Vogel Rabbi Carrie Vogel is the Assistant Director of Youth and Family Education at Kehillat Israel, in Los Angeles, California.  Rabbi Vogel was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and she also received a Masters in Jewish Education during her time there. [...]

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Judah and Tamar

December 20, 2012 • Filed Under Baum's Blog • 0 Comments

This past weekend at Congregation Beth Adam, our sister congregation, I had the opportunity to teach an adult education session about Judah and Tamar.  This is a text (from the 38th chapter of the book of Genesis) that Rabbi Barr and I taught and unpacked at the High Holidays this fall.  It’s a great story – [...]

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I'm Skipping Shavuot

May 25, 2012 • Filed Under Baum's Blog • 10 Comments

Cross-posted at Huffington Post. I’m a rabbi. But I won’t be observing the Shavuot holiday this weekend. Not because I don’t have the time. It’s because the traditional message of Shavuot doesn’t speak to me. My non-observance of Shavuot makes me like the majority of Jews. Many don’t even know what Shavuot is. If you [...]

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