Cheated: Consoling and Congratulating the Class of 2020 For our students, the loss of their end-of-year plans and graduation festivities is indeed a very real…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
A Brief Prayer for Passover As we gather under the full moon of Nisan, the same moon that our ancestors gathered under for thousands of…
How Will History Judge Us in This Time of Crisis? I pray that this pandemic may be lifted speedily from this planet – and when it…
Two Helpful Video Guides for Your Home Seder Needs Whether you’re hosting a seder via Zoom or doing a small, in-person seder with those quarantined…
A Prayer for Passover in the Era of COVID-19 “Source of Blessing, our lives are in turmoil, our hearts heavy. Help us to cope with this…
How Will History Judge Us in This Time of Plague? I pray that this pandemic may be lifted speedily from this planet – and when it…
What Does “Next Year in Jerusalem” Really Mean? Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on March 17, 2013. 4/06/2020 Dasee Berkowitz Read more …
This Year, We Need Passover More Than Ever Each year on Passover, we ask “Mah nishtanah,” “Why is this night different?” This year, though, we…
A Pandemic Playlist: Jewish and Secular Songs for This Moment For many of us, words seem inadequate to describe how we are feeling at this…
Parashat Tzav: Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other Amid Crisis In recent weeks, we have found ourselves on a journey for which we have…
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…
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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