Letting Go at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Lessons from a Zen Peacemaker Retreat As the son of Holocaust survivors, I ruled out the possibility of ever visiting a concentration…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
Shavuot: Counting Up to the Celebration Just as the light grows with each night of Hanukkah, so too do our joy and excitement grow as…
This Pride Month, We’ve Still Got a Long Way to Go to End LGBTQ Poverty This Pride Month, we remain committed to raising awareness about…
The Struggle for Women’s Equality in Israel Continues In Israel, “separate but equal” is used to justify limiting women’s access to, and participation in, the…
How One Israeli Organization is Fighting a 5-Year-Old Boy’s Deportation His world was turned upside down after his parents divorced. His father left Israel – and…
How to Declutter Your Soul During the High Holidays The Days of Awe offer us opportunities to consider how we spend our days and what…
How You Can Participate in National Refugee Shabbat – and Why You Should Jewish communities across North America will come together for National Refugee Shabbat on October…
Cracking the Code: What Torah Trope Are You? Chants used to read Torah may be an unusual metaphor to assess one’s inner nature, but the…
How #GivingTuesday Helps Us Fulfill a Jewish Obligation #GivingTuesday provides us with an opportunity to demonstrate one of the most fundamental teachings of Jewish tradition:…
That Time My Blessings Hid in Plain Sight at the Gym A recent experience at the gym reminded me that, far too often, my own…
What Does It Mean to Be a Jew in America on the Eve of 2019? Perhaps more than any time in history, American Jews are free…
3 Radical Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. and How to Honor His Full Legacy On MLK Jr. Day, we often see a sanitized, nonconfrontational…
What Is Our Responsibility to Future Generations? Learn Torah from NFTY-ite April Springer, winner of this year’s Blickstein D’var Torah Competition. 2/11/2019 April Springer Read…
My Jewish Manic Episode Mania can be challenging. Normally, it’s fairly easy to act properly and lawfully. But when much of your brain is malfunctioning,…
Learning How to Make a Difference in Our World Many of us want to help repair what is broken in our world. Getting started, though,…
In Every Generation: Four Questions from the Early Days of the Kibbutz For secular kibbutzniks, the Four Questions let them express ideas about living on…
Empty Chairs and Stained Napkins: A Passover Prayer for Peace When we gather on April 19 and 20 to mark the first two nights of…
Remembering My Mom and Making Her Legacy a Blessing Planning to offer brief remarks before Kaddish for my mother, I found it much harder to…
When Your Child Teaches You About Revelation Life can strip our ability to stand in awe. When the rent is due, the refrigerator is bare,…
In a Pickle: A Fun, Foodie Day at Camp, Plus a Recipe for Half-Sours When it comes to pickles, there are many connections to our…