This piece is part of a השתא הכא/Hashata Hakha, a justice-oriented Haggadah reader with contributions from members of Halachic Left, All That’s Left, and HaSmol HaEmuni,
Avi Garelick is the director of the Prozdor Hebrew High School at JTS and a student in the urban planning department of Hunter College. This
Rabbi Jill Jacobs writes at length about the Jewish Theological Seminary’s violation of a rabbinic ruling she authored requiring the hiring of union labor.
Jewish organizations in increasingly desperate attempts to attract those folks who have walked away have decided now that the answer lies in “disruptive technology.” What exactly, I wonder, is being disrupted? And, more importantly, where are the major Jewish organizations when actual disruption is urgently called for?
Guess what? This report, the result of direct conversations with Hyatt workers across the U.S., details a broader practice by Hyatt that we find contrary