What People Do

As part of an ongoing volunteering job with Kantcon , a fantastic tabletop gaming convention here in the Kansas City metro area, I record and write up interviews with a few of their sponsors each year. Walter Stewart is...

As part of an ongoing volunteering job with Kantcon , a fantastic tabletop gaming convention here in the Kansas City metro area, I record and write up interviews with a few of their sponsors each year. Rikki Tahta in...

Rabbi Norman Solomon served in many important capacities in the United Kingdom during his decades of service as a pulpit rabbi and educator. But the title of his latest book—which promised a delve into what we might...

I met Carole as the star administrator of the New York City-based rabbinic school I attended in 2025. (Shout out, Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute !) It always felt like there was a lot more under her surface in the...

A hundred years ago, Judaism’s path of moral self-improvement was stuck mostly in the Orthodox world where the classic books of the field were in their original language. When the wider Jewish world began taking notice...

People talk about "main character energy" when it's a bad thing: You're the center of the universe, you're the hero or heroine in your story, and your story is how you see the world. Everyone is important only in how...

I stumbled onto Christina’s name in my quest for one of my favorite Jewish folk tales. Turns out, she’d shared a version from a Christian book on her blog, which was also filled with marvelous thinking on men and women...

There is Jewish music, with melody and harmony and rhythm. There is chanting for Torah reading, with melody and meaning. And then there is Jewish chanting. Rabbi Shefa Gold talks about her entry point into it...

You’ve experienced this before, right? You know you’re supposed to do something. You’ve learned that a good habit is what you need or a bad habit needs to be changed. You know you should spend more time on this and less...

No, not game, like deer and pheasant, but game like … board games, tabletop games, card games, miniature games. Basically, all the games of the world that happen solo, in pairs, in groups, around tables, at home, at...

I am a big fan of thinking of productivity and task management, but I’ve been through dozens of them and I no longer think that any tool is going to magically spirit away whatever issues I have with self-motivation...

He's a scholar. A therapist. And a rabbi. And all three of those disciplines have touched on his work deeply studying what Judaism has to say about the supernatural and especially the afterlife. Rabbi Simcha Raphael...

After interviewing Rabbi Rifat Sonsino about a co-edited book he worked on called A God We Can Believe In , the other co-editor reached out and said he had more to say on it. Given that I peppered Rabbi Sonsino mostly...

Israel and Zionism: Could I have picked a hotter topic? Well, cool your jets, man. Sam Brody, PhD, an associate professor of religious studies at University of Kansas, is going to bring a nuanced view of Zionism...

Religions emphasize, in different measure at different times and for different reasons, belief/theology and practice/ritual/tradition. Judaism, in general, is a religion that focuses more on practice than belief. And it...