Sarah Brammer-Shlay is a rabbinical school student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is currently living in Jerusalem. Monday May 10 is Jerusalem Day (Yom
This week is yesod: which is foundation, but is also sometimes referred to as “bonding.” It is the offspring of hod and netzach – balancing
After the Derek Chauvin verdict last Tuesday, the only logical place to be was with Black Lives Matter in the streets in front of the
A photo from the archives of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) depicts a multi-racial group of protesters in grade
Rev. Michael-Ray Matthews told me this story. During the Ferguson protests a group of clergy who were there to support the protestors were dismayed that
I can’t attend this because it’s chag, but folks who aren’t limited that way, let me encourage you to go. There’s nothing more important right
My dear friend and scholar, Ori Weisberg, has composed an important observation about the ways defenders of the occupation and Israeli crimes try to obfuscate
He lived next door to us with his elderly mother: as caretaker, we assumed. Frank Smith was clean-shaven and well-groomed. My mother described him as
Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Graduate Certificate program in
Yesterday I was floored by the callous disregard for justice – no, I’m used to that. What I was floored by was its blatentness. To
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