Emily Strauss is a community organizer, and a frequent contributor to New Voices, Jewish Currents, The Forward, and Lilith magazine. For the second year in
Let’s talk about Judaism and privacy. Over the past several of decades, it’s been very common for technological advances to be matched by corresponding halakhic
These Sages help remind us to look at the chaos around us, to really see it, to analyze, it and begin to respond to it.
What does Parshat Toldot have to do with Toilets?
(The below is a slight adaptation of my sermon for Yom Kippur morning; it argues that concerns of economic and social inequality are perhaps more
“It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.” We’ve thought about these words
A break from labor, even the labor of social change, may be as radical as the work itself. Shabbat elevates to new importance in the Trump era.
Shmuel Rosner misunderstands the Exodus, prioritizing national solidarity above “worn-out political debates”— and is badly mistaken.
Ten lessons from the new AJWS Haggadah — Next Year in a Just World — for Jewish social justice activists.
Two trans Jewish activists respond to Benay Lappe’s comments on the Judaism Unbound podcast that erased trans women of color in the gay movement.