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The Life-Changing Benefit of Inclusion Programs
February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month. Join us as we share stories that highlight the impact of inclusion ...
An Interview with Ilana Kaufman, Public Affairs and Civic Engagement Director, East Bay JCRC
Ilana Kaufman is a nationally recognized speaker, a Jewish community leader with twenty years of organizational development experience, and a published author ...
The Holiness of Thrift Shopping
I may not keep traditionally kosher, but when I shop, I follow my own sort of kashrut. You won’t find ...
Seeing the Me that I See
February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month. Join us as we share stories that highlight the impact of inclusion in ...
At This Point in Time
Last week, all around the country, people stayed awake late into the night and took to the streets.The U.S Department of ...
Cornerstone Alumni Grantee: Building a Shabbat Community
The Foundation for Jewish Camp is dedicated to building leaders and amplifying Jewishness. While the Cornerstone Fellowship is about building ...
Trust Your Gut — But Verify
Near the beginning of the movie Men in Black, Will Smith‘s character is being tested to see if he has ...
Calling Me a LibTarded B—– Won’t Help
Recently someone called me a libtarded b—- in the course of a Facebook discussion regarding the president’s executive order reinstating ...
Catching Our Breath
This Shabbat we celebrate the New Moon of Shevat, the beginning of the Hebrew month in which the world begins ...
Jews and Muslims Coming Together in Minnesota
The final process of converting to Judaism is to meet with the beit din (a rabbinic “court” of three learned Jews, ...
Raise Game: Jewish and LGBTQ Heroes
“Raise game.” When I began rabbinical school, a friend of mine who was already ordained offered me these two words ...
When Running Out of Prayer Books Is A Good Thing
Recently I had the privilege of participating in the Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference in Natchez, MS, organized by the ...
The Torah of the Stateless and the Marginalized
What does it mean to be part of a social change movement?I recently was privileged to learn first-hand one way ...
Bethany’s Brilliant (Mississippi Delta) Bat Mitzvah
Late this past fall, I received a special invitation in my inbox. Surrounded by bright pink, blue and yellow polka dots, ...
Women on the March
Saturday January 20, 2017: Today, I’m committed to reading the Torah’s story about the seven women who give life to ...