How to Turn Your Home into a Sanctuary for the High Holidays
How to Get into the High Holidays State of Mind
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.
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
Why I Am a Zionist for Black Lives Matter
As an Israeli citizen and white citizen of the United States, I believe that Black Lives Matter – and that no American of good conscience can simply opt out of engaging with the pervasive issue of racism in America. If we will it, it is no dream.
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.