What’s Sephardic About the High Holidays? What do dates, pomegranates, apples, spinach, squash, pumpkin, beets, scallions, and maybe even, the cheek meat of a fish…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
Spitting Image: Using New Techniques to Ask Old Questions There’s nothing like a scheduled, non-funeral visit to old graves to get you thinking about Jewish…
This Rabbi Saved 4 Torah Scrolls from Being Destroyed in the California Wildfires “There’s a hill right across the street from our temple — it…
“Sing Hallelujah”: A Poem for Thanksgiving Poet Stacey Zisook Robinson reflects on Judaism’s call to us to both partner with God to repair what is…
How I Feel as a Jew During Christmas Sustaining a minority culture in the face of Christmas’s incessant commercial drumbeat can be exhausting. 12/13/2018 Juliette…
Together, We Can: A Letter to the 116th Congress Today, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism delivered a letter to every member of the 116th Congress.…
Wildfire Recovery: A Tu BiShvat Tale When a wildfire leveled my home when I was 20, I fell into a deep depression. Later, when I…
Rediscovering My Grandmother’s Blintz Recipe and Old Memories of My Family While helping my mom clean her home, I found a printout of an email…
Drawing Comfort from Tradition When Tragedy Strikes On the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting, we remember the lost lives and the lost innocence of…
“Make a Change”: A Jewish Teen Leader’s Challenge “Connection doesn’t have to be this huge thing. It can be small things, too, that make just…
The Day I Guarded My Synagogue’s Front Door Until a few months ago, I felt safe whenever I stepped into our temple. But then the massacre…
How Shared Narratives Can Foster Hope for Healing Narratives of Jews and Indigenous people differ greatly. But both groups have suffered unspeakable hardships and must…
A New Jewish Initiative Will Stand Up for Immigrant and Refugee Justice On the eve of Yom HaShoah, the Kraus Family Foundation and the Union for Reform…
How Does Your Judaism Spark Joy? If I ask myself, “Do these things spark joy?” that’s different than asking if I need or even if I want them, isn’t…
How To Make Your Own Cheese in Celebration of Shavuot Jill Zenoff, a Jewish environmental educator and chef, won top prize at this year’s Cheesemonger Invitational. In…
80 Years Later: How the Tragedy of the St. Louis Inspires Our Advocacy for Refugees The recent surge in xenophobic policies and anti-immigrant sentiment in…
How To Take the Mystique out of Being Jewish I have many friends in town, but most are not temple members. They’re unaffiliated Jews, church-goers,…
How and Why We Must Advocate for a Just Immigration System The mass raids planned for this weekend in immigrant communities are heartbreaking, heartless, immoral,…
This Weekend: 7 Ways to Act Now for Immigrant Justice Here are seven ways to act for immigrant justice – right now, from wherever you’re…
A Shabbat Picnic Showed Me Jerusalem’s Diversity On a recent Shabbat, I spent the time with friends in the park. Within a few steps of…