A Jewish Perspective on Being a Working Mother
My husband and I are expecting our third child. I’m often asked if I will continue to work, frequently followed by confusion about how I will pull off such a feat.
3 Jewish Dishes to Cook in the New Year
Always on the lookout for new dishes to prepare, I’ve decided to try three (and perhaps more) Jewish recipes in the New Year.
ReformJudaism.org’s Top 10 Stories of 2018
As we prepare to ring in 2019, we look back on the year we leave behind, and… whew, what a year!
A Mass Shooting and Wildfires Changed My Rabbinate. Here's How I'm Moving Forward
So I am going home with moral clarity for these turbulent times. I am feeling refreshed spiritually, reinvigorated strategically, renewed in my commitment, and prepared to help bend that arc a little more toward justice. I have no doubt that the journey ahead will be difficult. But the passion and perspective I picked up will push us - my rabbinic partner and I - through my diminishing patience for the status quo to produce what I perceive will become new organizing opportunities.
What Does It Mean to Be a Jew in America on the Eve of 2019?
Perhaps more than any time in history, American Jews are free to define our own Jewish identity and how we choose to express it in words, action, or inaction.
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 seem virtually inaccessible to us.
Building the World We Wish to See
Just as it is inaccurate to paint all progressive Jews with a broad brush, the same is true for Haredim, traditionally observant or ultra-Orthodox Jews.
4 Ways to Establish a Healthy Leadership Culture in Your Congregation
Embrace these cultural habits to inspire healthy leadership and promote good governance: sacred partnership, diversity, new ideas, and an inquisitive, positive mindset.
Seeing God in the Every Day
For years, I imagined God as a living human being walking amongst us each day. How foolish I was to personify such an inconceivable force.