Equal Pay Day, Jewish Values, and Fighting Gender-Based Wage Discrimination
March 31 marks how far into the new year women must work to receive in wages what their male counterparts earned in the previous calendar year.
Tikkun Olam
What “Just Mercy” Means to Me as a Black Jew
I carry the trauma of my ancestors, who were kidnapped and enslaved, who survived post-abolition racist terrorism, and who survived devastating Jim Crow laws. I also carry the history of the Jewish people, who have survived countless acts of violence, forced conversion, and genocide.
A Report from the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic - and How You Can Help
I run the Squirrel Hill Health Center, a nonprofit federally funded community health center in Pittsburgh. Many people have asked me what it feels like in the trenches. The answer? We feel very much alone.
We Have a Moral Duty to Welcome the Stranger
We sat down with Rabbi Bycel to learn more about his humanitarian activism and the making of his book, which Madeleine Albright has rightly hailed as “timely, important, and deeply moving.”
Social Justice & Reform Judaism
Social justice, advocacy, and the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) are among the central tenets of Reform Judaism.
