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Repairing the World: The Legislative Assistant Experience
If someone told me as a high school senior that after graduating college, I’d find myself working in Washington, D.C. for the largest Jewish denomination in North America, I would have been skeptical. In the years following my Bar Mitzvah, I barely set foot in temple.
Repairing the World: What the Legislative Assistant Experience Means to Me
I am only 22, yet I’ve been empowered to represent the represent the Reform Jewish Movement at coalition meetings, and strategize responses to the administration’s cruel immigration and refugee policies.
Pineapple Tart Rugelach
Lauren shares her pineapple tart rugelach recipe, which represents the marriage of a Peranakan pineapple tart and a Jewish rugelach.
Shaareinu: The “Collateral Good” Cannot be Overstated
The leaders of Temple Beth Torah, a community that always has held inclusion and acceptance as core tenets, realized a few years ago that we were not doing a good job of welcoming those who face physical, emotional, or cognitive challenges. We recognized, too, that by excluding even one family member from participating in Jewish life, we were effectively excluding the entire family. Including all who wish to join in the life of the synagogue enriches each of us, so our lack of welcome was painful for too many families, which in turn hurt our congregation and the broader Jewish community.
Does Don Draper Want to Be Jewish?
In the weeks before the beginning of the final season of Mad Men, the show’s creator Matthew Weiner did rounds
Being Holy - and Staying Alive
Acharei Mot, the first of this week's two parashiyot, begins on an unsettling note—a reminder of the death of Aaron's sons and the suggestion that such tragedies might occur again unless the priests take specified steps to prevent them
Reform Movement Mourns Death of UNC Students, Calls for Full and Swift Investigation
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Barbara Weinstein
(202) 387-2800 | mrosenblum@rac.org