Rabbinate through crowdfunding: Sandra Lawson, a third-year student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, took to GoFundMe for help with tuition, raising $1,167 in less than a week. (Times of Israel)
Heschel’s hoop dreams: A nondenominational Manhattan day school’s athletic director is orchestrating a turnaround for a once-weak basketball team. (Tablet)
Doing interfaith weddings after all: Growing numbers of liberal mid-career rabbis are changing their policies and opting to officiate at intermarriages. (Forward)
Scandinavia’s circumcision problem: Is the brit milah really a human rights issue? (The Daily Beast)
Renewal: inspiring or declining? Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi’s movement has influenced mainstream shuls, but the rabbis he’s ordained face challenges.(eJewishPhilanthropy)
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