Representing an Increasingly Diverse Jewish Community
This month’s post is by Anike Tourse, the founder of Mixed Operations. Mixed Operations (MO), a production company of mixed, multi-ethnic people producing motion picture films, television and web series, anchors its mission to the principle of Tzedek.
A More Personal and Intimate Approach to Jewish Practice
This week’s post is by Rabbi Sarah Tasman the founder of The Tasman Center for Jewish Creativity. The Tasman Center for Jewish Creativity iserves the needs of individuals, couples and families who don’t belong to a synagogue.
A Community Striving for Jewish Authenticity
This week’s post is by Rabbi Eddie Sukol, the founder of The Shul. The Shul is an Innovative Center for Jewish Outreach in Cleveland, OH.
Raising Lost Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition through Art
This week’s post is by Kohenet Bekah Starr, a Sacred Artist exploring connections between Hebrew Mysticism and the Divine Feminine. .
Rooted in tradition. Grounded in reality. Manifesting our future
This week’s post is by Rabbi Rachel Short, founder of Ahavat Aina, the first and only Jewish cultural community center and synagogue on the Big Island of Hawai’i.
Megatrends: Born in the Counter-Culture of the 1960’s
This week’s post is by Rabbi David Shneyer, a Jewish educator, musician, organizer based in Rockville, MD.
Building Bridges in a Southern City
This week’s post is by Jacob Ruden, the co-founder Jewsic City Shabbat.
Jewsic City Shabbat is a monthly musical Shabbat service and dinner hosted in homes across Nashville, TN.
Orthodox but Diverse and Open Minded
This week’s post is by Yossi Rosenberg, the co-founder of Kugel.
Kugel is a community-building organization aimed at uniting young and mid-career Jewish professionals who don’t fit into a box, as far as observance level.
The Wisdom of Turning Toward Gender in Our Time
This week’s post is by Deborah Meyer (she/her/hers, the Founder and CEO of Moving Tradition.
Moving Traditions emboldens teens by fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, and inspiring a commitment to Jewish life and learning.
Jewish Art as Portal to Jewish Engagement
This week’s post is by Richard McBee, is a painter of Biblical subject matter and writer and lecturer on Jewish art.
The Jewish Art Salon is the world’s largest Jewish visual art organization. It is a global network of contemporary artists, curators, art historians and art writers.
We Too. Jewish Communal Culpability and Sexual Abuse
This week’s post is by Asher Lovy, a survivor of child abuse and the director of community organizing for ZA’AKAH.
ZA’AKAH is dedicated to advocating for survivors of child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community.
The Roots of Tikkun Olam in Jewish Theatre
This week’s post is by Danielle Levsky, the Social Media Manager for the Alliance of Jewish Theatre Festival and a post-Soviet Jewish clown.
The Alliance for Jewish Theatre comprises theatre-artists, theatres, and other people connected to theatre to promote the creation, presentation, and preservation of both traditional and non-traditional theatrical endeavors by, for, and about the Jewish experience.
Let’s Not Forget G!d
This week’s post is by Eliana Light, who crafts ritual, writes music, trains educators, and consults with communities to bring this vision to life.
She focuses on translating liturgy, prayer practice, and G!D-concepts in ways that are deep and accessible for all people and all ages.
Deepening Jewish Life through Food
This week’s post is by Casey Krebs is the founder of Latkes and Babka in Kingston, ON
Latkes and Babka connects over our love for food and passion for tzedakah.
Developing a “Sacred Arts” Practice
This week’s post is by Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser, founder of Devotaj Sacred Arts in Washington, DC.
Devotaj s a radical collaboration of artists, makers, practitioners and supporters that is rooted in Jewish mystical, magickal, healing, and folk practices across space, time, and all the worlds.
Engaging Boomers in Jewish Life
This week’s post is by Stuart Himmelfarb, co-founder of B3, which is housed at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
B3 is committed to Boomer engagement and changing the conversation about aging.
Secular Synagogues and Online Judaism
This week’s post is by Rabbi Denise Handlarski, the creator and spiritual leader of the online community SecularSynagogue.com.
The goal of Secular Synagogue community is to explore how Judaism can be an enriching force in your life and, in turn, make you a more kind, just, and effective force for good in the world.
The Wellfont of Overflowing Love
This week’s post is by Rabbi Andrew Hahn, who has pioneered Kirtan in the Jewish world, offering communal call-and-response chant concerts and meditation seminars around the world.
Kirtan (also known as Bhajan) is a form of chant developed in India to heighten participation, communal feeling and ecstatic communion with the divine.
Return to the Land; Return to the Tradition
This week’s post is by Rabbi Justin Goldstein, the Scholar-in-Residence of Yesod Farm+Kitchen, a small regenerative farm and educational space, in Fairview, NC.
Yesod Farm+Kitchen is a community space dedicated to regenerative agriculture, earth-based Jewish living, and growing relationships across difference.
Examining Values at a Start-Up Shul
This week’s post is by Rabbi Sherril Gilbert is co-founder/co-spiritual leader of Montreal Open Shul and Executive Director of ALEPH Canada.
Montreal Open Shul dedicated to creating and celebrating innovative and inclusive opportunities for contemplative and experiential Jewish practice, life cycle rituals, learning, community building, and social change. ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal is a trans-denominational approach to revitalizing Judaism.
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