social justice
In Our Own Backyard: Pursuing Justice, Fighting Fundamentalism
Jay Michaelson, a contributing editor to The Forward, recently wrote an article about the dangers of fundamentalism within Judaism. In my ...
Answering the Call: Responding to Suicide and Depression in Our Communities
“Crisis Line. May I help you?” This is how I answer the phone at a local crisis center here in ...
Shavuot & Giving: Taking the Time to Get It Right
The holiday of Shavuot demonstrates a method of gift giving that we may want to deploy when thinking about advancing ...
Privilege & Oppression, Part II
Recently, the Governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, signed the Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act. On Governor Bryant’s website, the student ...
The Scottsboro Boys Revisted
Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...
Privilege & Oppression
We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...
Living the Dream: Remembering Dr. King
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the tragic assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the balcony of ...
On Pesach, you are not alone.
Passover has always been my favorite holiday. I love the foods, seeing my family and my friends who are normally ...
Is Reading Enough?
Jews across the world are preparing to sit down with their families and read the Haggadah this Passover. Although this is ...
International Women’s Day: Torah from the Margins
Torah teaches that ancient Israelite women refused to donate their jewelry to build the Golden Calf. Instead they donated their ...