The Thread that Connects the Tree of Life Synagogue, Kristallnacht, and Tishah B’Av In the year since the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
What I Learned from My Breast Cancer Experience I am a breast cancer survivor. Before my diagnosis, I knew of individuals who had survived breast…
7 Ways to Support Israel and Strengthen Reform Judaism in the Jewish State Here are seven ways North American Jews can show support and love…
How and Why We’re Creating Change in Our World Tomorrow, in support of gun violence prevention, Reform Jews from almost every state will do what…
How a Rare Jewish Ritual Added Meaning to Our Family When our son was born, we put a modern spin on the rare tradition of…
At the Intersection of Queer and Jewish: A Reflection The life I live today as a queer Jew of color would not have been possible…
Bagels, Lox and Grits: Defining My Jewish Identity My rabbi’s ‘’faith principles” and their many modes of expression ring true for me and my intersectional…
Selichot: A Spiritual Warm-Up for the High Holy Days When Rosh HaShanah occurs within close proximity to the Shabbat that precedes it, as it does…
The Taste of Salt: A Poem for the Days of Awe Read a new poem Stacey Robinson created for this High Holiday season. 9/06/2018 Stacey…
How You Can Get Civically Engaged This Fall Reform Judaism calls upon us to be civically engaged, making a direct call to action to involve…
Supporting and Celebrating the Women in Our Lives Often, women are set in opposition to one another, believing that to succeed we have to be…
In the Face of Anti-Semitism, We Need More Than Luck As the “Cabaret” cast assembled for rehearsal, we understood that now, more than ever, our…
How to Bring Sacred Stories to Life Even though the Jewish people are known as the “People of the Book,” sometimes our sacred stories can…
Joseph Cries a Lot – and That Should Matter to Us Crying gets a bad rap. 1/03/2019 Rabbi Erin Polansky Read more Source: reform…
To March or Not to March? That Is Not the Only Question The upcoming Women’s March has prompted challenging and heartfelt conversations and raised myriad…
How the Jewish Community Can Lead on the Issue of Mental Health In April 2015, when I was 15 years old, I learned that my…
What Does It Mean to Be “Blessed?” If you saw me in my nice suit driving my nice car on the way to my nice…
A Jewish Supremacist Party was Disqualified from the Knesset Against the Jewish voices preaching ethnocentrism, chauvinism, and racism, we are the voice of Judaism that…
5 Ways to Keep Kids Occupied (and Keep Your Own Cool) Before the Seder I know that if I don’t have a few tricks up…
For Sri Lanka, On a Day of Blood and Prayer Liturgist Alden Solovy’s prayer on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka following the Easter…