guest post by Erin-Kate Escobar and Chel Mandell This conversation explores how a Jewish DEI consultant and a fifth-year rabbinic student and activist have come
Abby McCartney is a policy advisor and strategist focusing on education and issues affecting children and families. She is a lay leader at Kol Tzedek
Guest post by Dan Osborn. Let me tell you an origin story. It’s the early 2000s. The United States is embroiled in wars in Afghanistan
I worked hard to identify opportunities for my 13-year-old campers to think critically about issues like gender, and to grow. However, there was and remains a limit to the cultural changes Ramah is willing to pursue, and that limit is the occupation.
Composed for How Desolate Lies the City: South Side Tisha B’Av (Chicago, IL; July 31, 2017), this poem interprets chapter four of Eicha in light of the starvation of resources facing our public school system.
My older son just graduated from his Jewish day school in DC and will attend public school next year. Who can I trust to educate him on Israel now?
The essay reminded me of notes I sent with my daughter Shachar (who is now in college), when she went off on her sixth grade trip to Israel. I don’t often write about my children (and I got permission from her for this blog post), but Danya’s piece pushed me to realize that explicitly parenting for the resistance is now an obligation—and nobody can do it on their own, we need to start sharing best practices.
Millions of dollars in public education were slashed from the CUNY budget — reflecting an alliance of McCarthyite pro-Israel and Republican interests.
A group of young, Jewish, Toronto-based leaders who are active in building dynamic Jewish programming for young adults expected to get support from Moishe House for
After Swarthmore Hillel’s decision to break from Hillel’s rules regarding conversation about Israel, I sent a letter to Hillel’s President and CEO, Eric Fingerhut by clicking