Rabbi Melinda Mersack
Rabbi Melinda Mersack is the Director of jHUB, which provides new ways for interfaith couples and families to comfortably explore Jewish culture in the modern world, a program of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland and an InterfaithFamily affiliate. Rabbi Mersack is proud to be a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and a Brickner Fellow of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Rabbi Mersack attends summer camp as visiting faculty every year, and is an advocate for interreligious dialogue and social justice. She holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Masters of Hebrew Letters and ordination from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.
www.facebook.comArticles by Rabbi Melinda Mersack
What do Guns have to do with Passover? I’ll Tell You.
We have an average of 13,000 gun homicides a year in the United States.
When Your Role Model Disappoints You
We are always capable of being better- and so is everyone else
Take Accountability…Now
What does it take to get my children to accept responsibility, to become accountable for their actions?
Gratitude with a Side of Humility and Guilt
I know how lucky I am. I am so grateful. I am humbled. And, I feel guilty
Feeling the Love in Israel
Make for yourself a teacher, acquire a friend, and judge every person favorably. (Pirkei Avot 1:6)
A Very Important Thank You
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can’t say it enough
Humility and How to Get Some
Do we each have more to learn, things we can do better?
How to Not Strangle the Bar Mitzvah Boy
Working with preteens is challenging, but living with them all the more so!