Never Forget, Never Again: Why Holocaust Education is Critically Important Today All of a sudden, I got very scared, realizing in a very visceral way…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
How Does Being a Synagogue Member Make My Life Better? A former synagogue member wondered, “How would being a member make my life better or…
How Fred Rogers and Jeff Erlanger Became Friends for Life Learn why Jeff Erlanger’s 1981 visit to “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in his electric-powered wheelchair was…
The Waldheim Waltz: Notes from The Authoritarian Playbook Ruth Beckermann’s new film is a persuasive accounting of the life and political career of Kurt Josef Waldheim, laying bare…
18 Recipes for a Tasty Thanksgiving… with a Jewish Culinary Twist! There are lots of ways to infuse your celebration with Jewish meaning – and recipes from…
Playing the Long Game of Social Change Recently, I traveled to Tornillo, TX, to witness and protest the detention camp there. Since my return, the…
At the Intersection of Torah and Israel Learn about Rabbi Reuven Greenvald, the Union for Reform Judaism’s director of Israel engagement, and what he brings…
The Traditions I’m Not Passing on to My Students As the synagogue’s lockdown drill began, I bolted the door, lowered the blinds, and took a…
The Issue Remains: Two States for Two Peoples In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michelle Alexander simplified the endlessly complicated Israeli Palestinian conflict –…
Hiding My Disability Kept Me from My Fullest Life At a very young age, I absorbed the message that illness and disability were things to…
Changing One Person’s Mind Can Help to Change the World In eighth grade, I finally came to terms with my LGBTQ identity. A year later,…
What Does it Mean to “Code Switch” in Jewish Spaces? Whenever I enter Jewish spaces, whether it’s my first time or my fiftieth, I make…
How to KonMari Your Pantry (and Your Life) in Time for Passover Kondo teaches us to organize our stuff and toss what we don’t need,…
9 Recipes to Indulge in Chametz after the Holiday Whether you observe seven or eight days of Passover and its dietary restrictions, get ready to…
3 Questions to Ask on Israel Independence Day All discourse around Israel can be boiled down to three questions that can help us frame our…
How the “Element of Surprise” Helps Me in Both Black and Jewish Spaces “As a Jewish woman of Color…” is how I begin most conversations…
The Torah of Elections in Israel: Concern and Optimism Israelis recently elected an assortment of representatives to parliament, but a coalition could not be formed,…
My Beautiful, Kaleidoscopic Jewish Life When I look into my soul – that of a proud black Jewish woman – and I realize the journey…
6 Great Jewish Reads for the Fourth of July Here’s some of our favorite Jewish content from Independence Days past, all from the archives of…
What Happened in El Paso – and 6 Ways You Can Act for Immigrant Justice “My faith requires me with every fiber of my being,…