Balance between

Published on October 10, 2012

Readers long have been challenged by the blatant contradictions between the first two chapters of Genesis. In chapter 1, the creation of animals precedes people; in chapter 2, the order is reversed. In chapter 1, a single, androgynous Adam came into being; in chapter 2, Adam and Eve.

All I want for Ramadan is you!

By Dennis Wilen
Published on September 1, 2008

The dress, the ring, the registry and the rest

By Teresa Strasser
Published on June 12, 2008

This moment that is supposed to be about eternal union is more about capturing eternal beauty in a photo that's going to be mounted in the living room so everyone can silently think, "Man, she used to be a lot thinner."

New commentary looks at Torah from woman’s point of view

By Jacob Berkman
Published on October 19, 2006

The Reform movement will soon publish a commentary on the Torah that gives the woman's perspective. "The Torah: A Women's Commentary," a project of Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), the movement's women's division, is a collaboration of 80 biblical scholars, archaeologists, rabbis, cantors, theologians and poets from across the religious spectrum -- all of them women who came together to present a new perspective on the Bible.

Bittersweet Life

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on April 20, 2000

Exiled from Paradise, Adam and Eve lived together east of Eden, struggling to raise children, to scratch a living out of the hard earth, to stay alive.