It's Election Season: 7 Key Actions to Take Between Now and Nov. 3rd
How and Why I Became a Freedom Rider - And What Happened When I Did
In 1961, I asked my rabbi if he thought I should join the Freedom Riders, who challenged segregated seating in the south. He said, “If I were in your shoes, I would go.”
Reimagining Simchat Torah so Our Rejoicing Lasts All Year
The truth is Simchat Torah is not my favorite holiday.
There. I said it.
What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice
This post is adapted from Rabbi Meyer's Rosh HaShanah 5779 morning sermon.
URJ Leadership Institute: Sessions for Leaders Before, During, and After Biennial
This fall, the URJ’s Leadership Institute is offering a series of three sessions about key concepts that we hope will inspire sacred action within congregations. Both virtually and in person at the URJ Biennial 2015, congregational lay and professional leaders have opportunities to study, engage, and converse with each other and with scholars who are well-versed in three topics
Finding My Way Home: How and Why I Returned to My Judaism
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.