For our youth educators, we are proud to share a downloadable resource document prepared by Rabbi Lily Solochek, Director of the Wenger-Markowitz Family Education Initiative. It provides many ideas for the various directions that can be used to approach this holiday. The storybooks suggested have recommended ages, and the activities
In our day, many folks think that freedom means unconstrained personal expression. What is freedom, really? I explore this topic in this Passover teaching. I invite you to watch and be part of this ever-evolving conversation about the nature of freedom.
One question Jews often ask each other the morning after the first Passover Seder is how late their respective evenings lasted. The responses can sound like brags: “It was 10 p.m. before we even got to the matzah ball soup!” There’s a history to this question. It is not asked
In January 2023, the Reconstructionist Movement completed a multi-year process of passing a movement-wide resolution on reparations. To support the commitments of the resolution, the Tikkun Olam Commission is creating a new series of supplements to the Passover Haggadah that can be helpful entry points to the reckoning and reflection work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKRu0ho47U During the weekly Ritualwell “Holding Each Other” gathering, Poet Ellen Blum Barish invites the readers to see flowers in a new way and to draw on everyday objects to find their own creativity.
Purim is in just a few days and Rabbi Seth Goldstein (aka @rabbi_360 on Instagram & TikTok) from Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash. is here to remind us how we drown out the sound of bad things – from both the Purim story and in our daily lives! Share the video
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