Building New Identities, Historic Profiles, Inspiring Story, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized |
April 13, 2022
Pesach 2022
This week, we welcome the holiday of Passover, the holiday of freedom. During the Passover seder, we act out the story of our ancestors being redeemed from Egypt. In the Talmud, there’s also the idea that we are supposed to understand ourselves to have been redeemed from slavery, too. And there are those who take it one step further. Our ancestors were redeemed in ancient Egypt, we too were redeemed, and not only that: The 19th-century Chassidic Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (commonly known by the name of his influential book, The Sefat......
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Building New Identities, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Soul Writings, Uncategorized |
February 08, 2022
We Have Returned…
…even though we never physically left our homes. As in my other post, I want to offer in the same-immediacy-writing commitment a glimpse of where I am now sitting, how I am now sitting, and the hope I feel while being here in this fragmented and polarizing era we find ourselves in, in reconsidering citizenship. I honor that it will be, at some level, incomprehensible or easy-to-dismiss from outside the experience. I honor that only a percentage of the 24 students who engaged in this trip will share in what I have......
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Building New Identities |
November 17, 2020
3 Lessons I Learned From Being A Black Kindergarten Teacher In China
How a positive attitude transformed a challenging situation....
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The quiet of the pandemic gives some of us the opportunity to contemplate our life purpose....
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Building New Identities |
June 25, 2020
Lemonade From Lemons: Diversity And Inclusion In The Terrible ’20s
One of the most powerful changes to come from this era is the abrupt dismantling of the wall between our work and home lives....
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Building New Identities |
June 06, 2019
An Orthodox Woman’s View: Why I Love Being Counted In The Minyan
All denominations of Jews can learn from each other....
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The day my mother gave me a journal to help me cope with my grandmother’s suicide undoubtedly changed my life forever. That seemingly benign gesture when I was ten years old, laid the groundwork for my life as a writer. Following this continuum, and after a serious health crisis, I became riveted to make a decision which went against my character and one which I never thought I would do. My cancer journey began in mid-2001 when I was called back to the hospital for a repeat annual mammogram and eventually diagnosed......
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How I learned to overcome the harmful messages about sexuality my parents were sending me....
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