Observing Mental Illness Awareness Week in a Time of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism kbkaput October 7, 2020 Mental Health Image Content Warning: This blog discusses…
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Finding My Way Home: How and Why I Returned to My Judaism kbkaput October 6, 2020 LGBTQ+ Jewish Life Image Not knowing if I would…
It’s Sukkot, Let’s Vote: The Letter I Wrote to My Neighbors about Our Sukkah kbkaput October 5, 2020 Civil Rights & Voting Rights Image Hi,…
Sukkot in a Time Of Pandemic: A Poem kbkaput October 5, 2020 Sukkot Image This year, even if you do not have a sukkah to…
It’s Election Season: 7 Key Actions to Take Between Now and Nov. 3rd kbkaput October 5, 2020 Jewish Values Image Election Day is fast approaching,…
It Shouldn’t Take a Pandemic to Return Us to Ourselves kbkaput September 29, 2020 Jewish Values Image As 5781 begins, I find that the less…
Yachol Nuchal, Surely We Can Overcome kbkaput September 27, 2020 Rosh HaShanah Image Do we see ourselves and this moment as grasshoppers, or do we…
An Open Letter to Those Who are Struggling with an Eating Disorder at Yom Kippur… kbkaput September 24, 2020 Jewish Values Image At Yom Kippur,…
On Running Away, Returning, and Teaching the Story of Jonah kbkaput September 24, 2020 Yom Kippur Image We hear the story of Jonah on Yom…
Act Now: 3 Vital Ways You Can Help Protect Our Democracy kbkaput September 24, 2020 Jewish Values Image Deuteronomy 16:20 directs us: “Tzedek tzedek tirdof”…
Shards of Glass: A Poem for the New Year kbkaput September 24, 2020 Rosh HaShanah Image Remind my tired soul, I beg You / My…
With Wounds Still Open, We Ask: Where is God? kbkaput September 23, 2020 High Holidays Image I do not believe that God sent us COVID-19,…
3 Previously Frowned-Upon Behaviors to Embrace During the High Holidays at Home kbkaput September 22, 2020 Jewish Values Image The new normal of distanced coronavirus…
Finding Healing, Finding Hope: The Powers of Poetry kbkaput September 22, 2020 COVID-19 Image In a time as devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic, people heal…
6 Ways to Honor the Life and Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, z”l kbkaput September 21, 2020 Death and Mourning Image As Reform Jews…
When It Comes to Supporting Israel, We Can’t Compromise Our Values kbkaput September 21, 2020 Israel peace and security Image As a young Reform Jewish…
Meet the Netlix Star Who Plays an African-British-Jewish Astronaut kbkaput September 21, 2020 Jews of Color Image Ato Essandoh isn’t Jewish, or British, or an…
This Yom Kippur, Let Your Emotions Serve as “Radical Blessings” kbkaput September 20, 2020 Racial Justice Image As we no longer serve God through temple…
Israel and Gulf states have engaged in discreet cooperation for years, on issues from Iran to Islamist radicalism. What has changed is not only the…