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Gershon Blumstein

Oct 23, 2026, 3:07 AM

When Conservative Jews Seek Outside Authority

The question is not whether our movement is always right. It is whether we still trust it enough to ask why. A few months ago, at kiddush after services, someone raised a question about Jewish practice. Another congregant mentioned what...

Oct 20, 2026, 1:25 PM

Choose Life: The Moral Price of the Moon

Abraham Joshua Heschel. Photo: Peter1c / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; modified from original || Background image licensed via Canva.

With the advent of Space exploration, rabbinic writers debated whether Jewish law permitted a person to leave planet Earth. Possibly the first voice to be heard on this question was that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994)....

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 15, 2026, 2:32 AM

Trustees of Sinai

What Conservative Judaism Taught Me About Stewardship The older I get, the more I find myself asking a question I did not spend much time thinking about when I was younger: What happens to the things we have been given...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 11, 2026, 5:38 PM

What Judaism Teaches About Loss and Hope

There are moments in life when we lose more than what happened. We lose what we believed would happen next. A marriage ends, and we lose not only the person but the years we imagined growing old together. A diagnosis changes...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

When the Heart Breaks

What Judaism Teaches Us About the Future We Thought We Had Heartbreak takes more than a person from our lives. It takes a future. There is the conversation you thought you would have next week, the journey you imagined taking together, the...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 6, 2026, 8:57 PM

The Judaism That Lives

How Halakhah Learns to Read a Changing World Beneath almost every Jewish question lies another, more difficult one: How do we live Torah in a world that keeps changing? We are about to ask that question in ways no previous generation...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Judaism That Lets Us Become

What We Inherit, What We Change, and What We Give Forward I have carried a question for most of my life, though I did not always know I was carrying it. What does it mean to inherit Judaism? For years, I believed...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 3, 2026, 7:19 PM

The Judaism That Refuses to Choose

Tradition, Change, and the Jewish Conversation That Belongs to All of Us Every Jewish movement has a story it tells about itself. Orthodoxy speaks in the language of preservation. Reform speaks in the language of moral evolution. But Conservative Judaism speaks...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Oct 3, 2026, 10:37 AM

Before the Final Horn

Before the Final Horn Before our kingdoms learned to rise, Before a crown adorned a head, A man of clay first opened eyes, And walked where all his children tread. He knew the names that he was taught, He knew the Garden and the fall; He...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:21 AM

What Kind of Brotherhood Are We Offering Our Sons?

When I saw the story out of Wisconsin, I recognized the scene before I even finished reading it. Police responding to an anonymous tip at an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin–Madison said they found roughly...

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