A Jewish Summer Camp Alum Heads to the Olympics!
What does Reform Judaism have to do with the Olympics? Chicagoan Jason Brown is an alumnus of URJ Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Oconomowoc, WI - and last month, he came in second in the U.S.
Stopping Israel's "Kosher Police"
“Hold it right there! Put your hands where I can see them!” Picture men running into your store, checking the food and the official Rrabbinate documents on the wall that certifies your establishment as kosher. In Israel, this may not be an imaginary scene.
Ariel Sharon: May His Vision Never Die
As I try to sort out my feelings on a Sunday evening, the body of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is lying in state in the Knesset. My wife Resa and I won’t be among the thousands who are lined up there – but we certainly are among the mourners.
Galilee Diary: Fair Tourism
...The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size... We looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.
An Apodosis for the New Year, in Memory of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy
Last August 24 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Jeffrey Sachs, Nobel Prize-winning economist and passionate advocate for the world’s poor, spoke these powerful words on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech:
Women Are Back On the Airwaves in Israel!
Anonymity is a funny thing. Sometimes, when nasty remarks are posted on the internet under the veil of anonymity, it is a sign of cowardice. Other times, anonymity offers the cover needed to push back against oppression.
Galilee Diary: On Violence
...There was a great and mighty wind, splitting mountains and shattering rocks by the power of the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind – an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake – fire; but the Lord was not in the fire.
41 Years of Roe v. Wade: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?
This week the United States commemorates the 41st anniversary of Roe v.
Justice Everywhere: The Fight for International LGBT Equality
After celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.