C.E. Harrison

C.E. Harrison (he/him/his) is the Communications Manager at Keshet and a former writer/editor for the Union for Reform Judaism; he is an alumnus of the 2018 JewV’Nation Fellowship’s Jews of Color Leadership Cohort. C.E. also contributes to USA TODAY and is a Professional Certified Marketer® (PCM®) and Certified Digital Marketing Professional (CDMP) with dual certification from the American Marketing Association and Digital Marketing Institute. C.E. lives with his partner and four pets in metro Detroit, where he serves on Temple Beth El’s Board of Trustees and is actively involved with his local Jewish Federation.

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Current Events

Jewish Resources for Coping with the Insurrection in Washington, D.C.

C.E. Harrison

Kate Bigam Kaput

January 6, 2021

What we saw Wednesday was not just an unprecedented assault on the U.S. Capitol but on our constitutional democracy and the values we as Reform Jews – and Americans of all faiths and cultural backgrounds – hold so dear.

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Shabbat

How a Jewish Preschool Teacher Became a Professional Challah Baker

C.E. Harrison

January 4, 2021

Meghann Hennen, a Jewish preschool teacher based in Cleveland, OH, discovered challah's incredible impact on her life firsthand when she decided to start her own challah business on Instagram... in the midst of the pandemic.

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Vayechi

Using Our “God-Sparks” to Reconcile Our Relationships

D'Var Torah By: C.E. Harrison

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Dara Lithwick

December 17, 2020

The book of B’reishit is, in essence, one big, messy story about family. While the relationships discussed in this book are imperfect, they matter because people matter. Imperfect as these families are, they’re still sacred because God exists as the connection between them.

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Arts and Culture

“of One Breath”: A New Song and Video Represents the Way the World Should Be

C.E. Harrison

December 14, 2020

I want everyone to hear the poetry of these young people’s lives; they are about joy, accomplishment, and love. And I want others to join them. The lyric “We know we are whole” means all of us; the glue uniting us is God’s breath that we all have inside and deserves to be heard.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Shabbat

Three Radical Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. and How to Honor His Full Legacy

C.E. Harrison

On MLK Jr. Day, we often see a sanitized, nonconfrontational version of King that is far from the radical activist who was reviled during his time for his justice work.

C.E. Harrison

Jewish Resources for Coping with the Insurrection in Washington, D.C.

How a Jewish Preschool Teacher Became a Professional Challah Baker

Using Our “God-Sparks” to Reconcile Our Relationships

D'Var Torah By: C.E. Harrison

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Dara Lithwick

“of One Breath”: A New Song and Video Represents the Way the World Should Be

Three Radical Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. and How to Honor His Full Legacy

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