Rabbi Abi Taylor-Abt has worked in formal and informal Jewish education for over twenty years. Abi is a specialist in Jewish Educational Curriculum Development and has worked in day schools…
This was the question my daughter placed on social media after learning that her sister’s husband had been attacked on a Washington, D.C. street within the shadow of the Capitol…
I have grown complacent, and I am not alone. For the first year of the pandemic, when attending worship services online, I made sure to be fully present as if…
It’s the High Holidays.
How am I feeling this year?
How about alone.
Betrayed.
Excluded.
On the day of my open heart surgery, I walked by a statue of Jesus, another one of St. Francis and a wall-size photograph of the Pope. What did I expect? I am a Jew seeking life-saving heart surgery in a Catholic hospital.
Road to Recovery builds and promotes co-existence between Israeli and Palestinians by engaging thousands of Israeli volunteers to drive Palestinians – mostly children – requiring medical treatment from border crossings…
For residents of Braddock, PA – a struggling, under-resourced community still suffering from the collapse of the region’s steel industry decades ago – Free Store 15104 is an oasis of…
Unchained at Last works to end forced and child marriage in the United States. The organization provides crucial legal and social services to help women, girls and others escape arranged/forced…
Gabriel Project Mumbai works to eradicate poverty, injustice and inequity in the underserved urban slums of Mumbai, India, and in marginalized rural tribal villages of Maharashtra, India. The organization focuses…
About four-in-ten married Jews have a non-Jewish spouse, according to the Pew Research Center’s report, Jewish Americans in 2020. Some Jewish communal leaders are concerned. Should they be?