If You Want to Know What It Means to Be a Reform Jew Today, Look No Further
A new adult education curriculum helps us explore what it means to be a Reform Jew today – reassessing Judaism as a source of inspiration, guidance, resilience, and hope.
My Relationship with My Tallit and Tefillin
Yes, I wear a prayer shawl and phylacteries when I pray but it has taken me years to get over judging myself as a woman wearing items “traditionally” worn only by men.
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, all teenagers at the time, who escaped deportation by staying incognito in Berlin.
The Issue Remains: Two States for Two Peoples
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michelle Alexander simplified the endlessly complicated Israeli Palestinian conflict – the same mistake right-wing voices make.
Dear Erich: An Exciting Addition to the Jazz Opera Repertory
Jazz pianist and composer Ted Rosenthal conceived Dear Erich from 200 letters, written mostly by his grandmother, trapped in Nazi Germany, to his father, safe in America.
We Need to End the Government Shutdown
We sent a letter to Congress urging them to immediately pass legislation to fully fund the government and end the partial shutdown.
Rediscovering My Grandmother's Blintz Recipe and Old Memories of My Family
While helping my mom clean her home, I found a printout of an email from my late grandmother: It was a recipe for her favorite blintz casserole.
How Growing Up Jewish in the Bible Belt Helped Me Find my Faith
I want to be open about my faith so that others may not have to experience the same hardships my family went through.
Mixed Multitude: On Judaism and Racial Justice
We carry memories of racial solidarity past even as we turn a blind eye to racial injustice today. We love to celebrate our legacy as leaders in the civil rights movement, forgetting, by the way, how many Jews 50 years ago thought we should keep our heads down and stay out of it. We pat ourselves on the back with pictures of Rabbi Heschel marching with Rev. Dr. King, even as we let that legacy lapse. As one of my colleagues put it: “Are we just running on the fumes of Heschel?” When did prophetic zeal turn to privileged complacence? How did solidarity turn to silence and separation?