Tag: community
When a Humanist Is Asked to Pray
In Ghana it is customary to start and end every meeting with a prayer. What kind of meeting doesn’t matter: PTA meeting, building project meeting, NGO planning meeting–they all start and end w... Read More
Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” Pablo Neruda Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of atonement between humanity and the divine. Jewish tradition dictates that atonement between h... Read More
Memorials for All? Government and Religious Expression
The issue of establishment of religion by the government is in the news again, this time dealing with a library in New Jersey. As reported here, a monument to veterans and fallen soldiers, paid for by... Read More
We Are Brothers: Deepening the Conversation between American Jews and American Muslims
The appointment of Bob Silverman by the American Jewish Committee as the first official Jewish ambassador to the American Muslim community, as reported here by Lauren Markoe of the Religion News Servi... Read More
Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves us to Advocacy, Part 2
If you read Part 1 of this article, you have become acquainted with the members of the Rural Women’s Movement, many of them unmarried mothers who participate in my research project on the strugg... Read More
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
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
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