Category: Challenges
Observing the Masters of Interfaith Engagement
It can be challenging intellectual work to take “terms of art” coined in one’s religious and spiritual tradition, time, culture, and language, and re-interpret, reframe, and disseminate the spir... Read More
Visit to the United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum
We are pleased to be sharing, over the coming weeks, a series of three reflection pieces on the State of Formation visit to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum this March. Each one is a col... Read More
Holocaust Memorial Museum Reflections: Theodicy and Systemic Opposition
We are pleased to be sharing, over the coming weeks, a series of three reflection pieces on the State of Formation visit to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum this March. Each one is a col... Read More
From Poverty to Rabbinical School
Originally written for and posted at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger My story starts and ends with a rabbi. The first rabbi is one I’ll always remember fondly, who took the time to look after a f... Read More
Openness Isn’t an Invitation to Touch Me
A few weeks ago, I had just finished giving a talk, and as the gathering came to a close the man sitting next to me turned to me to tell me his thoughts. I’m used to this. Maybe it’s because of my... Read More
Discovering Discrepancies: The Mistreatment of Adults with Developmental Disabilities in the Legal System
On a cool, crisp February morning in a quiet, snowy residential Toronto neighbourhood, the city woke up to gun shots being fired at a man wearing nothing more than a hospital gown, fleeing from the lo... Read More![Blessed are [Male] You: Gendering God in Jewish Text](https://i0.wp.com/stateofformation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/512px-Shabbat_Candles.jpg?resize=512%2C340&ssl=1)
Blessed are [Male] You: Gendering God in Jewish Text
ברוך אתה יי אלהינו מלך הועלם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וציונו להדליק נר של שבת Baruch atah adonai, eloheinu melech haolam, asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav... Read More
Purim and Holy Saturday: Waiting On the World to Change
When John Mayer’s hit single “Waiting On the World to Change” first hit the radio waves, I would refuse to listen to it. My self-assured high school-aged smugness thought that this... Read More