Equal Pay Day, Jewish Values, and Fighting Gender-Based Wage Discrimination March 31 marks how far into the new year women must work to receive in…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
COVID-19 is spreading wildly through a Haredi community ill-equipped to understand the nature of the threat. Simple homemade face masks heighten awareness – and could…
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It’s OK to Mourn the Seder That Will Not Be During this surreal period, many of us are trying hard to keep sadness and anxiety…
What “Just Mercy” Means to Me as a Black Jew I carry the trauma of my ancestors, who were kidnapped and enslaved, who survived post-abolition…
The Language of Music, the Power of Camp, and the Torah of Parenting Meet Cantor David Berger, the cantor at Chicago’s KAM Isaiah Israel and ReformJudaism.org’s current Ten Minutes…
The Jewish Song That Comforts Me in Uncertain Times This song provides us with a musical roadmap: Give fear room to process, but do not…
A Shabbat Prayer for Healing in the Era of Coronavirus Our ancestors turned to that pillar for strength and support in their time of waiting;…
How to Make Immigration Justice Central to Your Passover Celebration If we are to heed the call of freedom that Passover offers us, we must not close…
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6 Jewish Podcasts to Listen to Right Now Our Judaism is adaptive and manifest in many forms, from attending Shabbat via livestream to reading Jewish…
Quarantine: A Poetic Interpretation of Leviticus 13 As quarantines and lockdowns spread, the descriptions of tzara-at in Leviticus 13 (Parashat Tazria-M’tzora) come to mind. Tzara-at refers to a scaly skin…
What the New Film “Resistance” Teaches about the Power of Jewish Hope We spoke with director Jonathan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan Jew of Polish descent, to…
How to Hold a Passover Seder in the Year of Coronavirus While I pray that the coronavirus pandemic will pass over quickly, that turnaround is…
The Jewish Imperative for Justice in the Face of Pandemic The coronavirus is sweeping across a broken world. Defeating it will require us to see…
Israel, Coronavirus, and Slivers of Hope for the Future With all of the stress, anxiety, and potential panic that this moment in time brings, may…
“Out of an Abundance of Caution”: A Prayer Amid a Pandemic “Out of an abundance of caution, I have faith that love and kindness are…
Corona, corona, the tyrant muses to himself, where have you been all my life? Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Connection in a Time of Social Isolation: Here’s What Synagogue Life Looks Like Right Now With some governments restricting public gatherings to under 500 or…