How to Bring Sacred Stories to Life Even though the Jewish people are known as the “People of the Book,” sometimes our sacred stories can…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
Joseph Cries a Lot – and That Should Matter to Us Crying gets a bad rap. 1/03/2019 Rabbi Erin Polansky Read more Source: reform…
To March or Not to March? That Is Not the Only Question The upcoming Women’s March has prompted challenging and heartfelt conversations and raised myriad…
How the Jewish Community Can Lead on the Issue of Mental Health In April 2015, when I was 15 years old, I learned that my…
What Does It Mean to Be “Blessed?” If you saw me in my nice suit driving my nice car on the way to my nice…
A Jewish Supremacist Party was Disqualified from the Knesset Against the Jewish voices preaching ethnocentrism, chauvinism, and racism, we are the voice of Judaism that…
5 Ways to Keep Kids Occupied (and Keep Your Own Cool) Before the Seder I know that if I don’t have a few tricks up…
For Sri Lanka, On a Day of Blood and Prayer Liturgist Alden Solovy’s prayer on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka following the Easter…
Riding Out of Missoula, MT, with Torah on My Mind I cannot possibly imagine that I will think often and fondly of this day in…
An Open Letter to My Younger Self about My Judaism and More “Your formula is made up of three things society doesn’t view positively –…
6 Deliciously Dairy-Free Recipes for Shavuot Shavuot is typically known as a dairy-heavy holiday, even though 5/29/2019 Kate Kaput Read more Source: reform judaism
How Judaism Helped Me Become the Superhero I Always Knew I Could Be I like to tell people that being Jewish brought out the beauty…
Canada Day, Korach, and Audacious Hospitality Let’s celebrate Canada Day by embracing diversity, reaffirming our duty to care for each other, and ensuring our communal…
A Prayer Against Detaining Children This prayer addresses the detention of children at the U.S. border and the tragic deaths of innocents there and in…
We Made It: Climbing Mount Neshef with the Support of My Jewish Community In that moment, atop Mount Neshef, we weren’t two teenagers on the side of…
Love Beyond Measure: Tishah B’Av, Tu B’Av, and Tel Aviv Pride As a queer rabbinical student, I felt that recent comments by an Orthodox rabbi…
On Stage Now: Two Plays Ask Us to Look Beyond Our Prejudices Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival, has dedicated the season to…
I Spent the Last Day of Summer Break Lobbying My State Senator I chose to spend the last day of summer before seventh grade participating…
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…
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 …