What Did Ordinary Americans Know About the Holocaust as It Was Happening? What did American voters, the constituents who may have done more to pressure…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
Why Do We Read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot? No story in the Bible better demonstrates than the Book of Ruth the extraordinary power…
Why I Joined The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival I joined the Poor People’s Campaign because I am answering the call of…
8 Ways to Take Jewish Action around Family Separation We will continue to update this list as more opportunities become available. Thank you for your…
It’s Up to Us to Keep the Mishpachah (Family) Together Imagine being forcibly separated from your loved one. This scenario may evoke thoughts of one…
How a Terrorist Attack on My Bar Mitzvah Day Led Me to Advocacy Work I knew that this was my time to act. As a…
A Year Later, Charlottesville’s Lasting Impact on American Jewry American Jewry is safe from actual attack, yes, but the Nazi chant of “You will not…
Why We Need Good Sermons Now More Than Ever For more than 50 years, High Holiday sermons were consequential both for the rabbi and the…
Lost in Ambivalence at the Western Wall At the Kotel, the stark contrasts between Reform and Orthodox Jews and the physical separation of males and…
How I Plan to Talk to My Daughter about God We will tell her that God is many different things to many people, and no…
A Look Inside Day-to-Day Life in Israel As a recent volunteer in Israel, I tutored students in English, both middle school students in south Tel Aviv…
Planting “Trees” to Fulfill the Dream of Israel’s Founders Tu BiShvat (Jewish Arbor Day) is the time of year when Israeli schoolchildren plant trees. Perhaps…
What Happens When a Holocaust Documentary Meets a Wartime Thriller The Invisibles tells the true story of four Holocaust survivors, two men and two women,…
Yahrzeit for 14 Youths: Deaths We Can’t Live With Tonight marks the Sabbath before the yahrzeit for 14 youths and three adults shot to death…
Oscar-Nominated Short Film Remembers 1939’s Massive Nazi Rally in NYC The Oscar-nominated short film A Night at the Garden is a documentary short about a massive pro-Nazi…
The Struggle to Build a Loving, Accepting, and Ethical Israel A classmate recently snapped a photo of a billboard promoting Israel’s right-wing Yachad party that…
How to Enrich Your Seder with Some (Good) Drama While others cook and clean for Passover, I write jokes for Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, and God…
Let My Popcorn Go: Rethinking Passover’s Forbidden Foods Jews, our rabbi insisted, have a duty to resist this mistaken and harmful tradition by making it…
Our Enemies Will Not Defeat or Define Us The Passover story reminds us that in every generation an enemy rises up to destroy us. These…
A Mother’s Day Wish: An Interview with My 97-Year-Old Mother Having gained valuable insights from his 2018 interview of his mother, Adela, Aron Hirt-Manheimer decided…