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Moved Toward Hope: Translating Values into Action

Moved Toward Hope: Translating Values into Action

Posted on May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 by Emily Thompson
Over the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have lear... Read More
When a Humanist Is Asked to Pray

When a Humanist Is Asked to Pray

Posted on April 24, 2017September 28, 2017 by Wendy Webber
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

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“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

Memorials for All? Government and Religious Expression

Posted on August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 by Eli Lieberman
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

We Are Brothers: Deepening the Conversation between American Jews and American Muslims

Posted on June 6, 2016May 31, 2016 by Eli Lieberman
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

Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves us to Advocacy, Part 2

Posted on June 6, 2016May 31, 2016 by Haley Feuerbacher
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

Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves Us to Advocate, Part 1

Posted on June 1, 2016May 31, 2016 by Haley Feuerbacher
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

Visit to the United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum

Posted on April 18, 2016April 17, 2016 by State of Formation
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

From Poverty to Rabbinical School

Posted on April 8, 2016April 7, 2016 by Adam Zagoria-Moffet
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
On Creating Communities of Welcome

On Creating Communities of Welcome

Posted on February 23, 2016February 22, 2016 by Lauren Tuchman
This drash was originally delivered at Congregation Beth Israel in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 13, 2016. Shabbat shalom!!! Thank you so much for having me in your community this Shabbat. It i... Read More
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