9 Principles to Help You Engage Jewish Youth
These nine guiding principles to engage youth were developed by numerous congregations and synagogue professionals in our collaborative work with them. We share them with congregations and use them to inform our own ongoing efforts to develop new camps and year-round programming.
How 250 Jewish Teens Are Changing the Face of Youth Engagement
The inaugural Dana Gershon and Rabbi Jonah Pesner Northeast Leadership Summit focused on creating a new and innovative structure to enable Jewish teens to find their purpose and bring it to life.
Why I Keep Telling My Family’s Breast Cancer Story
Although I tell my hereditary cancer story again and again, it never gets old.
There's Something about Baseball and Judaism... But What Is It?
The first word of the Book of Genesis is b’reishit, meaning “in the beginning,” but Rabbi Steve Lowenstein of Am Shalom in Glencoe, IL, likes to joke that baseball aficionados may hear the interpretation as “in the big-inning.”
More than Marriage: LGBT Parenting and the Fight for Equal Rights
It’s hard to believe that the landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a nationwide right was already four months ago. With one of the larger fights for LGBT equality behind us, we cannot lose sight
For We Were Once Strangers in the Land of Egypt
Since my first day working on the Syrian refugee crisis, the response of the Jewish community has been inspiring.
Leon Klinghoffer's Legacy to the World
Leon Klinghoffer’s claim to fame would have been his invention of the Roto-Broil Rotisserie Oven had he and his wife not taken an ill-fated, anniversary cruise.
What Does God Require of Us?
With simple, everyday acts, I can keep alive the memory of our ancestors’ encounter with God and help perpetuate it into the future.
My First Time Hosting Shiva: We Do Not Mourn Alone
My family recently observed my uncle’s yahrzeit, recalling how, just about a year earlier, we were all gathered at the hospice to offer our love, to find strength in and for one another, and to grieve.