How My Kippah is Both a Symbol of Pride and a Target for Hate When we arrived in Israel, I removed it my kippah. I’d…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
How Do We Elevate Ourselves? Re-Examining the Imperative to “Please Rise” Those of us who use wheelchairs have accepted the idea that we need to…
It’s Never Too Late to Become a Bat Mitzvah Becoming a bat mitzvah as an adult was one of the high points in my life;…
How Our Temple is Supporting a Refugee Couple – and What You Can Do to Help There is one catch – and this is where…
Getting Exactly What I Wanted for Father’s Day Eighteen years ago it was not that common for gay men to become parents. My husband and…
See Something, Say Something: Having the Courage to Name Implicit Biases As a rabbi, who also happens to be a woman, I am living through…
How and Why I’m So Committed to Teaching My Kids to Value Diversity Now that I’m a parent, teaching my children about racism, classism, and…
How to Move World Jewry from Protests to Transformation An equal partnership between Diaspora and Israeli Jews is vital for a Jewish, democratic state. Creating…
A Letter to the Rabbi Who Jump-Started My Jewish Journey You probably knew back then that I wasn’t close to being ready to fully accept…
We Must Not Willfully Hide from a Truth In 2018, the Knesset adopted the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” nearly…
Why It’s Imperative for Us To Vote On February 13, 2018, I turned 18. For the first time in my life, I had the right…
Sukkot, Diversity, and Unity: How Each of Us Is Like the Four Species While all Jewish holidays serve as great opportunities to practice audacious hospitality,…
We Are More Than Our Diagnoses: Speaking About Mental Illness with Compassion and Respect A psychiatric disease is not someone’s fault nor is a diagnosis…
Domestic Violence Awareness Month is Ending – but VAWA Has Yet to Be Renewed Congress failed to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act in April.…
Would You Like a Side of Grasshoppers With That? Although we tend to limit our carnivorous palates to meat, fish, and fowl, a passage in…
Raising Resilient Teenagers: Resources That Can Help During Mental Health Awareness Month, let’s remember that caring for each other is an integral Jewish value and…
Israel’s Biggest Rabbinic Position is Now Open to Women For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman can apply for the position of Knesset…
Sow in Tears, Reap in Peace: Honoring the Life of Alyssa Alhadeff When tragedy struck Camp Coleman, we asked how we could respond. The answer…
How a Parkland-Area Rabbi Found Space to Heal and Reflect My renewed strength will fuel me as I return to Parkland this week to serve…
The Exile of Tishah B’Av: What Is It We’re Mourning? The Jewish holiday of Tishah B’Av is the date on which both the First and…