Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Is there a liberal conspiracy to infect America's pulpits?

In a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Tevi Troy, a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute and former member of the George W. Bush administration, rails against rabbis who devote their Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur...

Before my daughter's birth, my Tel Aviv-born husband and I spent hours discussing the implications of our future child's dual citizenship. How would an American-born child negotiate dual identities? Would citizenship help her to feel closer to her Israeli cousins? How would we raise her to feel responsibility for both...

My 17-month-old daughter is obsessed with strawberries. At the end of each meal, she hopefully calls out "toot!" using the Hebrew word for strawberry. But when winter came, the price of strawberries at our local grocery jumped to $8.99 per package. That, plus the fear of the local foodie police...

Cross-posted with small corrections from the Jerusalem Post blog.

During the year that I spent in Jerusalem, at the Schechter Institute as part of my rabbinical studies, in 2000-2001, I learned that Schechter -- the Masorti (Conservative) Movement's academic institution in Israel -- prides itself...

Last month, a group of workers at the New York State fair showed up in a Syracuse-area medical clinic suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration. As was soon discovered, the members of this group had been toiling away 100 hours a week for two dollars an hour, while being held...