The ancient ceremony of circumcision, performed on the 8th day of life, was instituted as a sign to the covenant between God and Abraham. It symbolized the consecration of one's sexuality and one's ...

Before the Torah returns to describing the work of building the Tabernacle, it first reminds us of the six days of labor and the commandment of Shabbat. The Torah says: Moses gathered the entire ...

The Power of Jewish Rituals as a Mark of the Covenant By Rabbi Rachel Ain, November 2008 Why do I wear a kippah? I was asked this question when speaking at Corcoran High School this week, giving a ...

The Bloodstained Men are a group that advocates against the practice of infant male circumcision. Las Cruces was a stop on a 20-city tour of the southwest. A rabbi says medical circumcision should not ...

Our Sages derive from our Parasha, a wondrous occurrence: the circumcision of the Egyptians. We read in our Parasha(41:53-57)’The seven years of abundance that came to pass in the land of Egyt ended.

In the 1960s and ’70s, the San Francisco Bay Area was where the counterculture really started — the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, gay rights in the Castro.