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…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
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…
What I Learned at a Jewish Camp in France At Mahanetzer Camp in the south of France, more than 150 campers and 40 staff celebrate…
What I Learned at an “Urban Kibbutz” In a nondescript building in the north of Israel, 150 people are striving to create societal transformation as…
What Do We Really Mean When We Apologize Although we learn to say “I’m sorry” as young children, as we age, these words take on…
Suffering in Silence: Jews, Therapy, and the Stigma of Mental Illness I was 20 when I learned that my first love had committed suicide. His…