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Rabbi Julia AppelRabbi Julia Appel

Rabbi Julia Appel is Clal's Senior Director of Programs, helping Jewish professionals and lay leaders revitalize their communities by serving their people better. She is passionate about creating Jewish community that meets the challenges of the 21st century – in which Jewish identity is a choice, not an obligation. Her writing has been featured in such publications as The Forward, The Globe and Mail, and The Canadian Jewish News, among others.

Learning to Apologize

September 2, 2026 by Rabbi Julia Appel

I realized that apologizing was for adults, too, not just children who got in trouble.

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Contentment Without Complacency

July 31, 2026July 30, 2026 by Rabbi Julia Appel

How could we navigate this tension between accepting what is and articulating what might need to change?

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How to Talk About the Hard Thing: Lessons from the Seder

March 31, 2026March 30, 2026 by Rabbi Julia Appel

If the seder is a model of how to tell the story of the hard thing, what can we learn from it?

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Jewish Practice: The Ultimate Touch Grass?

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

With such powerfully addictive technologies, both in design and due to being socialized throughout our relational networks, we need others to be with and connect with outside of technology.

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Hearing Our Messengers Clearly

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

Sometimes, our life reveals messengers who have something important to tell us.

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The Holy Outcast

September 18, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

Especially at this time in the Jewish calendar, our new selves are trying to get through to us, the selves we want to become this year.

Categories Compassion and Empathy, Soul Writings, This Week In Wisdom, Weekly Parsha Tags "Weekly D'Var"

The Wilderness of Addictive Technology

July 30, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

Sometimes it is the children who need to take us into the future, not those of us who started the journey.

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The Power of Softness

October 6, 2025June 30, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

Sometimes we need to work softly, like water slowly dripping, day in and day out

Categories Belonging, Building New Identities, Compassion and Empathy, Weekly Parsha Tags "Weekly D'Var"

Disagreeing Well Is a Matter of Life or Death

June 4, 2025May 29, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

Engaging with those who disagree with us is a major way we learn and grow.

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Building the America I Believe In, With Chesed

April 24, 2025 by Rabbi Julia Appel

It’s not every morning that my eyes well up with tears reading The New York Times. Yesterday morning, though, I … Continue Reading

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