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The Summer We Didn’t Get to Look Away … and Beyond

September 3, 2020

This summer we encountered a growing movement that forces us to stare into the face of racial injustice. For those of us who are accepted as white, it demands that we stop looking away. It requires us to try to imagine what it means to raise a child of color in America and examine how we, despite all of our best intentions, fail in our efforts to include and empower people of color in our civil and religious communities.

Navigating the Coronavirus: Jewish Values to Guide Institutions and Individuals Now

June 4, 2020

At the Center for Jewish Ethics, we have created Jewish Values and the Coronavirus, a guide to help frame values-based decision making in this time of pandemic. This web-based resource collects and curates sources from the Torah and rabbinic texts alongside insights from leading ethical thinkers from across the Jewish world and beyond.

Ways Into Torah: Multiple Spiritual Intelligences

May 27, 2020

On the brink of Shavuot, Rabbi Vivie Mayer shares insights into the concept of multiple intelligences as it applies to receiving Torah.

Guarding and Growing Trust in the Time of Corona

May 7, 2020

Crystal clear to me, now, is that all the coffees, the story sharing and listening, and the showing up, has resulted in the cultivation of a most rare commodity in our society. Trust.

Daf Yomi While Sheltering in Place

April 27, 2020

https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.54a.3?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=enRabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., reflects on the insights gained from daily Talmud study during the coronavirus pandemic.

Jewish Particularism & Universalism: An Interview with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.

April 23, 2020

In this enriching conversation, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. and Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Ph.D. focus on the things that traditional and Reconstructionist Jews have in common, the challenges that social distancing is posing to community, and ways that Jewish practice can bolster resilience.

May We All Be Liberated Soon

April 3, 2020

Usually, on Passover, we ask “How is this night different from all other nights?”. This year, many of us are asking, “How does this Passover resemble any we’ve ever experienced?” While social distancing has seemingly changed everything, Passover is still about telling the story of going from oppression to freedom.

When The Threat Is Random, The Jewish Response Is Compassion

March 23, 2020

As a rabbi, my prescription for most every challenge, drawn out of millennia of Jewish wisdom and practice, is community. But what is the Jewish response when the best way to slow down contagion is by “social distancing”?

Welcoming a Guest Into a Sanctuary Congregation

December 20, 2019

“One who destroys one life destroys the entire world. One who saves one life saves an entire world.” This dictum has new meaning to me since my congregation, Temple Beth Hatfiloh (TBH), welcomed our guest into physical sanctuary, making the commitment to provide housing and shelter for an asylum seeker who is at risk of deportation.

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The Summer We Didn’t Get to Look Away … and Beyond

Navigating the Coronavirus: Jewish Values to Guide Institutions and Individuals Now

Ways Into Torah: Multiple Spiritual Intelligences

Guarding and Growing Trust in the Time of Corona

Daf Yomi While Sheltering in Place

Jewish Particularism & Universalism: An Interview with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.

May We All Be Liberated Soon

When The Threat Is Random, The Jewish Response Is Compassion

Welcoming a Guest Into a Sanctuary Congregation

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