Category: Community
Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves Us to Advocate, Part 1
We drive down a dusty, overgrown mountain road, and I wonder how the low clearance between my four-cylinder rental’s undercarriage and the uneven mounds of earth have not scraped the oil pan from my... Read More
Parashat Emor: On Bodies, Leadership, and the Public Sphere
Parashat Emor opens with a description of right priestly conduct. In Leviticus 21:17-23, we find a lengthy list of those Kohenim who have a mum—often translated as blemish which disqualifies them fr... Read More
Traversing Tradition(s) – Diversity in American Judaism
We, American Jews, have a problem. We are often unwilling or unable to see the tremendous diversity of our own community. The truth is: Jews come in all shapes, sizes and colors. There are Jews of eve... Read More
The World Humanitarian Summit: Rethinking the Role of Faith in Humanitarian Action
From the 23-24th of May, Istanbul will see the first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) convened by the UN Secretary General. The summit is unique in the sense that it will see a space being creat... Read More
Reading: It’s Good For Interfaith
My interfaith activism was more than a decade old when I embarked upon a seemingly new career: fiction writing. From my perspective this was an extension of my non-fiction and technical writing: the e... Read More
“No really, what would you like us to do?”
When the folks who’ve been doing interfaith and other nonprofit work for decades longer than me look to me to say, so “what do you want us to do?” “What?” I thought. “No really, what would... Read More
Expanding Public Pluralism
As someone who wears a Yarmulke every day, I have always considered one of the most important components of a religiously pluralistic community to be the acceptance of public expressions of religio-sp... 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