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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...

Gershon Blumstein

Sep 20, 2026, 6:15 PM

The Judaism That Refuses to Choose

What Conservative Judaism Can Teach a Fragmented Jewish World Judaism has never been a tradition of easy answers. The rabbis did not build Jewish civilization by eliminating disagreement. They preserved it, studied it, argued through it, and carried it forward....

Sep 20, 2026, 5:20 PM

Echoes of the Past, Rituals of the Future

It was the morning before Yom Kippur and I hadn't done tashlich yet, but there was another errand involving a trip to nature on my checklist; I needed to deposit some bones. The idea of making a pilgrimage to the...

Aug 28, 2026, 6:36 AM

Bring Your Congregation into the Black Book of Life

Times are Tough for Temples

Congregations across the United States and around the world are struggling to keep their doors open. Fewer people are becoming members; synagogues and temples are being forced to merge to be financially viable; even twice-a-year Jews are dwindling. Part...

Aug 19, 2026, 3:00 AM

אֱלוּל תְּשַׁפ”ו: It’s Time to Pay Attention to the Soul

Our world has a lot going on within it, maybe in a way that feels at times like what the Torah calls "תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ," a wild and chaotic place that is lacking order, light, and even direction. Whether it be...

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