Domestic Violence Awareness Month is Ending – but VAWA Has Yet to Be Renewed Congress failed to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act in April.…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
How a New Ceremony Changed My View of Yom HaShoah Yom HaShoah is typically a somber time to reflect, and for me personally, to be angry…
Jerusalem: A City United, A City Divided There is the Jerusalem on high and the Jerusalem of below. The Jerusalem of Old and of New.…
5 Jewish Facts About the New Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ Movie Learn all the Jewish tidbits associated with the newest “Star Wars” movie, “Solo: A…
How to Increase the Divine Presence in the World On a recent Shabbat morning in Israel, a group of high school students experienced something extraordinary…
How to Create Synagogues That Welcome Our Truest, Most Authentic Selves Learn how individuals and communities can celebrate people who are their most authentic, truest…
Why Did You Deceive Me, Distant Lights? Visiting Kuchinate, I experienced overwhelming kindness from the women, Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers who had escaped horrible…
What’s Love Got to Do with Jewish Tradition? Tu B’Av – a minor Jewish holiday often understood to be the Jewish equivalent to Valentine’s Day…
Every Table Tells a Story What we do and say at the kitchen table, how we behave, and how we put down or lift up…
A Brief History of the Kol Nidrei Prayer For most North American Jews, the haunting melody of Kol Nidrei surely is the piece of liturgy…
How and Why I Flourished During a Year in Israel When I signed up, I had no idea about Mechina, a gap-year program in Israel.…
Building the World We Wish to See Just as it is inaccurate to paint all progressive Jews with a broad brush, the same is true…
The Song Lyrics that Remind Me to Be Humbled A song – and its sentiment of humility and gratitude – wove its way through a…
How We Can Deepen Social Justice in the Jewish Community and Beyond We caught up with some of the contributors of the new anthology Moral Resistance…
#10YearChallenge: The Struggle for Equal Pay Remains Here’s what you can do to ensure that we continue to make progress toward pay equity. 2/05/2019 Ally Karpel…
Remembering the Life and Legacy of Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, z”l Just a few days after the first yahrzeit of my friend and mentor, I can’t…
Drunk on Purim: What are We Teaching Our Kids? Purim festivities don’t square with what I know about the harmful side of alcohol: It destroys…
Mourning the Fire at Notre Dame: A Rabbi’s Perspective In March 2012, I visited Paris in my capacity as then-president of the World Union for…
A Letter to My Daughter on Her Many Names In Jewish tradition we say that “a good name is better than riches.” We hope we…
What I’ve Learned About Resiliency from Being a Victim of Terror Fifteen years ago, I met evil personified: I was on bus #14 in Jerusalem…