The sense of peoplehood is the awareness that an individual has of being a
member of a group that is known, both by its own members and by outsiders,
as a people. (Mordecai Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew)
We need to hold both: our Israeli and Jewish family, and our extended family — the Palestinians in Gaza living beneath the bombs and those under assault on the West Bank.
I want to make room for complexity and nuance, to be flexible enough to change direction to meet the needs of everyone I serve, to assist in the building of connection and relationship, and to help people shift perspective in ways that can open up unexplored depths.
The longer I work as a climate-change chaplain, the more I’ve come to believe that it’s not change we hate so much as stepping into the unknown without a map or a guide.
By reading Dayyan HaEmet, the Judge of Reality, as “the True Judge,” interpreters run from our awareness of the randomness of creation. They seek to provide the cold comfort of a caring God whose plan for us is beyond our understanding.
The Reconstructionist Network
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
