Buffie Longmire Avital: Professor, researcher, Jew of Color and mother shares her research on how Jewish parents talk to their kids about race, and how everyone might better tell a multi-racial Jewish story.
Rabbi Shefa Gold writes that “to stand in God’s presence means to stand outside the whirlwinds of change, anchored in the stillness of center.”
Activist Sallie Gratch was honored with the Keter Shem Tov award at RRC’s 51st graduation ceremony. Hear her inspiring story.
Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz gathers a range of texts to spark discussion and evoke the experience of receiving the Torah at Sinai.
Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein implores us to grapple with Torah’s most problematic aspects to find new meaning in the text.
Our interview with Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann has set an Evolve podcast record for the most downloads in the first week of release. If you haven’t listened, hear why many have said that it is helping them through a difficult time.
Writer and artist Barb Richman examines the idea of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks as metaphors to guide thinking about the Divine presence.
Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann shares a personal story about her son to make a larger point: There’s an ongoing stigma around mental illness. As long as the stigma pervades, people’s lives are at risk.
Reb Ezra Weinberg and Ariel Collins write that too often Jewish communities fail to support people experiencing divorce. They ask: What might it look like for the Jewish community to do divorce well?
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