For NFTYites, Social Justice "Simply Feels Right"
Toby Cook is the Social Action Vice President of NFTY-OV, the Ohio Valley region of the North American Federation of Temple Youth.You are walking in a forest path or at a family gathering and suddenly you pause. You are overtaken by a feeling, you can't
No Jew Left Behind
February
is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts
about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, the RAC's senior adviser on disability
Next Week, For Purim, No Segregation Allowed
In honor of Purim, that most silly time of year, when we are commanded to drink and disguise ourselves until we cannot recognize even those we know best, I'd been planning a fantasy Purim spoof of my own, in which men and women switch places on segregated
Close Encounter
Some of you may have read my blog post about my serendipitous celebrity run-in with Justice Sonia Sotomayor while purchasing cucumbers at Eastern Market this fall.
Don't Judge Me
Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that "the biggest open secret" in the federal case currently being argued in California challenging Proposition 8 is that the judge who is hearing and deciding the case, Vaughn Walker, is gay.
NFTY Tackles Overconsumption & Ethical Eating
Molly Goldberg is the
incoming Social Action Vice President of the North American Federation of
Temple Youth (NFTY). She is currently the Social Action Vice President of
NFTY's Missouri Valley Region.
Nearly 120 NFTYites from across the country gathered last
Saperstein Asks McConnell to Denounce Pogrom Analogies
In an opinion piece published this week on Foxnews.com, Ken Blackwell, Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment for the Family Research Council, wrote that confirming President Obama's nominations of Dawn Johnsen and Chai Feldblum (to the Department of Justice and
Disabled in Haiti, Where Everyone is Now Vulnerable
February
is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts
about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.Estimates of the financial damage caused by January's earthquake in
"Seclusion and Restraint:" For Prisons or Public Schools?
February
is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts
about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.Last week, I wrote about the issue of high unemployment among
Congress Procrastinates, the Unemployed Suffer
It seems we've been here before: unemployment hovering around 10%, restlessness about the economy, gridlock in Congress on issues that affect a broad range of people agree on, and, most tragically, millions of Americans wondering if their federal unemployment
