11 Ways to Celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month in Your Synagogue
In honor of Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month, we offer a few suggestions to help congregations adopt further awareness and understanding of disabilities.
Suffering in Silence: Jews, Therapy, and the Stigma of Mental Illness
I was 20 when I learned that my first love had committed suicide. His death shattered me, both mentally and emotionally – but it also saved my life. You see, in the months leading up to his suicide, I had been planning my own.
My Journey to Judaism and to Jewish Art
As a gay kid growing up in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood of Boston, I felt alienated and targeted, and certain that wasn’t going to change.
A Look Inside Day-to-Day Life in Israel
As a recent volunteer in Israel, I tutored students in English, both middle school students in south Tel Aviv and nursing-field students at a youth center in Bat Yam.
5 Ways to Invest in Forward-Thinking Leadership Development
These five principles can help you invest in constant, deliberate, and forward-thinking leadership development to support new and long-term leaders.
The Small Miracle I Found in a Tel Aviv Café
Accompanying student groups to the Kotel repeatedly reminds me that Israel is a place like none other. On my most recent trip, I got another reminder of that fact.
Don’t Waste Time Making Resolutions - Instead, Count Blessings
Our rabbinic teachers of old offered a different tactic to living life. They invited us to count the blessings we have today and to enjoy the lives we are living.
Why - and How - Our Temple is Sending as Many Teens as Possible to NFTY Convention
Encouraging colleagues and friends to step up and provide support for the essential well-being of our youth programs needs to be a high priority for all of us.
What Is the Price of Human Dignity?
Jewish tradition includes many teachings related to issues faced by farm workers and thus, these issues should concern us all.