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?
Recorded late last year, this interview with Reconstructionist lay leader Marc Overbeck includes an articulation of hope for Israel as a Jewish democratic state and defender of human rights.
Rabbi Amy Eilberg writes about how Israel helped cement her Jewish identity yet, for now, she can’t bring herself to sing its national anthem, “Hatikvah.”
Rabbi Maurice Harris, whose Moroccan Jewish family found refuge in Israel, traces his evolving thinking and feelings about Zionism, the Palestinian experience, antisemitism and the ongoing conflict.
Sharing some of her family’s story, theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores what it means to be simultaneously Black and Jewish in America.
In this podcast, Rabbi Michael Strassfeld says it’s time to reimagine the Seder and Shabbat services.
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, who 50 years ago edited the seminal Jewish Catalogue, says it’s time to disrupt the Passover Seder. He starts with four new questions.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who turns 90 later this year, spoke in 2021 about the origins of the Freedom Seder and what it means today.
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