A Blanket, a Letter, a Shoe: Searching for Meaning in Traces of the Holocaust The artifacts displayed in a major new exhibit, “Auschwitz. Not long…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
The Truth about Gaza: One Rabbi’s Reflections Theories about the timing of recent rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad into Israel are numerous. Whatever…
5 Actions You Can Take Right Now to Better the World Whether or not you were able to attend the Consultation on Conscience, you can…
Lessons from the Stadium Seats: A Father’s Day Reflection The small, quiet moments we spend with loved ones are precious and personal and powerful, and…
I Attended Jewish Summer Camp 25 Years Late – but It Still Made a Huge Impact To be in a camp like this, these young…
8 Books for the Lazy Days of Summer Here’s a round-up of some of ReformJudaism.org’s recent book reviews. One of these books might be just…
The Day I Met Leonard Cohen in Jerusalem ReformJudaism.org interviewed Julia Knobloch about her powerful collection of poems, Do Not Return, which captures the essence…
A Letter to the Hillel Rabbi Who Jump-Started My Jewish Journey You probably knew back then that I wasn’t close to being ready to fully…
What Being a Practicing Reform Jew Means to Me When a non-Jewish acquaintance asked me: “Are you a practicing Jew?” I answered “Yes,” but the…
Why We Must Free Children in Cages When I learned of the adolescent detention facility in Homestead, FL, I was appalled. Because my mother survived…
A Psalm: A Song of Beauty and Grief I wrote this poem in honor of a dear man, a beloved pillar of my synagogue who…
How My Judaism Strengthened Me to Come Out as Bisexual Coming out and owning my bisexuality has reinforced that this – and all parts of…
How Our Congregation Went Shopping to End Gun Violence In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we are inspired by America’s teens and heartened by…
Act in Today’s Call-In Day for Gun Violence Prevention As a follow-up to last month’s March for Our Lives, Reform Jewish young people have designated…
Philip Roth: An Appreciation of the Wicked Child Now that Roth is dead, the American Jewish community, by virtue of the adjective “American,” can do…
Four Men Who Made a Difference in My Life Although I never knew my father, four Jewish male mentors made meaningful contributions to my life…
How Goodly Are Your (Rainbow) Tents We come from different backgrounds but are driven by a simple shared goal: justice for all LGBTQ people, especially…
Just Keep Marching, Even When the News is Disappointing and the Road Ahead is Tough Despite discouraging news out of Washington this summer, I implore…
All of Life’s Ninths of Av I have a story to tell you. It’s about a tiny bird. But I’ll come back to that. 7/19/2018…
How I Helped Lead the Way for Jewish Girls With Guitars When I was growing up, Jewish music was the sole purview of men. I…