Jewish Thought
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 3
Part 3 in this series features Shelly Weiss, the queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, as ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2
Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss
Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...
A Rabbi Mourns African American Christians
“’…But, mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham to make ...
On Making A Difference, Together
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain ...
What Do You Do When You Are Betrayed?
You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...
A Bigger View of Service
I listened to a recent episode of the NPR show On Being (formerly Speaking of Faith) called “The Calling of ...
Claiming Our Spiritual Ancestry
In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...
The Ultimate Tzedakah: Being a Surrogate Mother
Keshet is pretty excited about The Guys Next Door , a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Erik and ...
Closing the Gap
I’d like to share with you all the holiday message I have written to the members of Or Shalom Synagogue, ...
A Hundred Thousand Miracles
I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...
Click (Everyw)here
At the end of the week, I embark on a weeklong meditation retreat. As the retreat starts, and for its ...