Category: Social Issues
#WeCantBreathe and Advent
On Sunday, December 7, there was a message preached at the Memorial Church of Harvard University. It was an urgent and powerful call, and it affected each person who walked out of that morning worship... Read More
More Than Just the Baby in the Manger
Sometimes the timing of things does make me believe in alignments of stars or planets or fate, in a terrible kind of way. I wake up this morning to the news of the attack on the Peshawar school in Pak... Read More
The Illusion of Separation
Every core part of my identity that I love and treasure has a history of oppression that comes with it. I am African-American. I am a woman. I am in a same gender loving relationship. And I am a pract... Read More
Obama Administration Renews Lease on Racial Profiling
Originally Published in TIME.com On Monday, the Obama Administration unveiled updated guidance on how federal law enforcement should address racial profiling. Rather than discarding the ineffective pr... Read More
Just Another Brick in the Barrier…..
I knew Rabbi Twersky. We weren’t best buddies, or drinking pals, or even very close, but I considered him a friend. I met him several times in Boston and in Israel and always found him to be a great... Read More
Sanctuary for Immigrants By Michael Ramberg
I have served as campus rabbi at Ursinus College for just four months but I already have been fortunate to work with lots of incredible students committed to repairing the world. Some of them have con... Read More
How Doctors Talk: Medicine and the Misuse of Language
I am finishing my residency training at a large urban hospital in Boston. We sit miles away from some of the best research institutions in the world, and also amongst the most disenfranchised in the c... Read More
“There is no such thing as Palestine!”–Dispatch from Palestine
“You can’t teach me anything about Europeans,” once commented the deputy mayor of Jerusalem. Europeans had killed his father. “You can’t teach me anything about Palestinians.” Palestinians... Read More