Rabbi Yael B. Ridberg serves as the spiritual leader of Reconstructionist Congregation Dor Hadash in San Diego, California. In addition to her congregational responsibilities, Rabbi Ridberg serves on the Board of The San Diego Jewish Academy. She lives in La Jolla with her husband and four daughters.
[Originally posted at Times of Israel on 4/22/2021] This week’s guilty verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd z”l
Purim 2020 was the last in-person event celebrated by many Jewish communities around the country before the COVID-19 shutdown. Little did we understand that the
(Written for Shabbat Bo, January 22, 2021, and originally published at The Times of Israel as “The Rituals of American Democracy” Used with kind permission.)
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