Kol Nidre: A Poem I heard Kol Nidre on a violin tonight. They should take all legal documents and set them to music. All vows…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
Canadian Thanksgiving: A Turkey in the Sukkah? This year, Canadian Thanksgiving coincides with the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot on Monday October 14. 10/10/2019 Cantor Katie Oringel Read more …
When You Just Don’t Feel Joyful on Simchat Torah, Remember… With every seemingly worse piece of bad news littering our social media feeds and our…
All Its Inhabitants: Living Under Israeli Jurisdiction In a forthcoming book, two rabbis address the aspirational ethical treatment of all the inhabitants of the land…
How My Generation is Making a Quiet Difference – and What’s Jewish About It At a recent Torah study, my rabbi mentioned the Lamed Vav Tzadikim,…
Why I Organized Hundreds of My Teenage Peers to Lobby for Gun Violence Prevention This is an issue that affects all of us, every child…
10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Passover Passover has a deeply meaningful message – but it also generates lots of confusion. Here’s what you…
How Shabbat Dinners Transformed a White Nationalist Learn why an Orthodox Jewish student invited a fellow student, a known white nationalist, to Shabbat dinner in…
The Shape of Your Despair Judaism calls upon us to work in partnership with God. In addition to prayers for healing, what can we offer…
Hineni: We are Here to Stand up for Immigrants We must continue to work to realize the Reform Jewish community;s vision of a world where…
6 Things I’ve Learned as the Mom of a Transgender Teen At the Pride service my transgender daughter recently organized at our temple, she noted…
What Should Jewish LGBTQ Spaces Look Like? No LGBTQ Jew who is embroiled in moments of loss asks if there is a need for explicitly Jewish…
Why Israel’s Controversial New Nation-State Law Matters to All Jews Why is it so important, and what is its impact on Jews who don’t live…
Election Days are Jewish Holidays While Jews have not always been afforded the right to vote, voting encompasses several Jewish values. 8/15/2018 Rabbi Joel Mosbacher…
How I Learned to Blow the Shofar Recently, I dusted off my shofar and have been brushing up on my shofar-blowing skills to prepare for…
The Gift of Suffering In February 2017, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now that my treatment is over, I search for the meaning in…
Wonder of Wonders: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s (People’s Stage) Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof is now…
My Journey to Judaism and to Jewish Art As a gay kid growing up in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood of Boston, I felt alienated and…
Our Spiritual Fate Depends on Progress Toward Racial Justice This essay about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. written a year after the civil rights leader…
In Israel, Finding Value in the Voices of the “Other” I love the sounds of Jerusalem. The voices, noises, and music all tell stories that…