From the Congo to Your Phone
If I told you that something most likely on your person at this very moment was helping to fund war in the eastern part of the Congo, which item would you guess? Clothing? Shoes? Perhaps your watch? All good guesses, but all wrong. The answer is in your electr
A One-to-One Ratio
Harri Plotnick is an intern at the Religious Action Center. She belongs to Congregration Keneseth Israel, where she also teaches religious school.The product of 40 years of feminist work since the main push for the Equal Rights Amendment in the '70s has
Striving for Equality
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to staff in Representative Gary Ackerman's office by Zoe Kline, Emily Singer, Jamie Kula, and Allison Kobrick.
Let's Try to Remember Where We're Going
With the Senate and House bills passed, it seems to follow that we should be on our way to health insurance reform in no time, right? Wrong.
Jewish Disability Awareness Month is Coming!
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg is Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Ad Hoc Committee on Disability Awareness & Inclusion and Senior Advisor on Disability Issues at the RAC.
Galilee Diary: Torah for the masses
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Ben Bag-Bag says: Turn [the Torah] over and turn it over, for everything is in it. -Mishnah, Avot 5:22
I just returned from Limmud Galil, where I had the misfortune to be teaching a class in the
No Climate Bill? No Chance!
Congress returns from its winter recess next week with a full agenda: wrapping up the health care bill, tackling job creation and enacting financial reform, not to mention gearing up for the fall 2010 election season.
Israel's Movement for Progressive Judaism
Rabbi Denise L. Eger is the founding Rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood's Reform Synagogue. She is the first female president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis and is also president of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis.
Fulfilling Our Responsibility as Inhabitants of the World
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented yesterday to staff in Senator Charles Schumer's office by Jacob Pargament, Matthew Bernstein, Daniel Pollack, and Benjamin Saltzman.
Wise Local Living - Without Leaving
Tracey Bianchi blogs about finding a saner, greener life from the heart of the Chicago suburbs. She wrote Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet
(Zondervan 2009) and blogs at traceybianchi.com. This article was
