Poet Darcy Graberstein describes how a billboard on a New Jersey highway brought emotions to the surface regarding October 7 and the hostages remaining in Gaza.
And she provides a writing prompt: How are you filing your void, right now?
Jewish communities are embracing meaningful ways to support LGBTQ+ folks and foster inclusive spaces. Below, you’ll find resources and actions to honor Pride Month through a Jewish lens.
In this moving reflection, Rabbi Deborah Waxman shares her transformative experience on a service-learning trip to Israel with Yahel and Repair the World. Amid the complexities of a region in conflict, she discovers how hands-on service work—from weeding at a therapeutic farm for veterans to packing food for Bedouin villages—opens pathways to hope, agency and renewal when mere words and meetings cannot.
Reconstructing Judaism and The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association have joined together with over 150 other Jewish organizations in a letter to protech SNAP and Medicaid. Read the full letter below. As Congress moves towards cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from federal basic needs programs like SNAP and Medicaid, more than 150 Jewish organizations nationwide wrote to their […]