Category: Community
“Let All Who are Hungry Come and Eat”: Passover, COVID-19, and Youth Leadership
The below article was originally published on Interfaith America, a publication of Interfaith Youth Core, on March 25, 2021. This coming Saturday night, Jews throughout the world will celebrate the f... Read More
Finding Harmony in Chaos
How did I get here? To be completely honest, I got an email asking if I wanted to apply to be a part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), and I thought to myself, “Literally why no... Read More
What is the point of interfaith work?
Over and over during my time as a Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) fellow, I found myself asking the question: What is the point of interfaith work? I was not asking out of frustration o... Read More
Building Communities to Mobilize in Times of Crisis
Over the course of the last year, I have been part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), a program for interreligious leadership development. It was an opportunity to develop a set of... Read More
Discovering Faith through Dialogue
Before the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), I didn’t truly understand what interfaith interactions actually entailed. I thought BILI would teach me about the tenets of others’ relig... Read More
How Accessible is Interfaith Work?
For many of my early Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) sessions, as well as my time at the Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, I felt like I was doing a lot of personal developmen... Read More
Elijah the Prophet & the Passover Seder: Intergenerational Questions & Connections
The below article was previously published on Tikkun on April 17, 2020. One of my favorite Passover memories from childhood is welcoming Elijah the Prophet to our family seder table. I loved the drama... Read More
Building Bridges of Compassion: Preparing for Passover & Easter Virtually
The below article was previously published on Patheos on April 7, 2020. Last Friday morning (March 27), approximately 100 students, faculty, and staff from Hebrew College, Boston College, and Boston U... Read More