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Tag: Reflection
Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery of Asking
Look at reparations and the difficulty and bravery of asking, through the lens of slavery in Egypt, slavery in America, and the Holocaust.
Rabbi-Cantor Michael McCloskey
April 5, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Every Year We Must See Ourselves As If We Were There
Every year at Passover, we must see ourselves as If we were there in Egypt and take on what that means for ourselves.
Rabbi Amy Eilberg
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
How a Show Like “Succession” Illuminates the Four Children
How can a show like "Succession" illuminate the Seder? Compare the Four Children of our haggadah with the four Roy children.
Rabbi Adam J. Rosenbaum
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Back to Our Roots
Learn about the Wicked Child of the Four Children by going back to our roots and looking at the meaning of the Hebrew word itself.
Rabbi Adir Yolkut
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
On Passover, We Are All Jews-By-Choice
On Passover, we are all Jews-by-Choice when we choose to remember what it is that brings us together for the holiday.
Andi Kahclamat
March 27, 2024
Conversion
Holidays
The Seder as a Lived Experience
We use the Seder as a lived experience by reenacting the exodus, not just recounting it. Therefore, we can all connect to Passover.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Pesah and Continued Kashrut Slavery: A Conceptual Reflection
A conceptual reflection of Pesah and Kashrut can bring more meaning to how we follow the halakhah of food on Pesah.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander
March 12, 2024
Holidays
Passover
The Art of Assimilating Wisely
Hanukkah—when we read about the Maccabees resisting assimilation and Joseph embracing it—is a time to look at the art of assimilation wisely.
Rabbi David Baum
December 14, 2023
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Reflections
What is Healthy Jewish Pride?
What is healthy Jewish pride? While exploring the past, present, and future of Chanukah, Rabbi Bernat-Kunin proposes a new home ritual.
Rabbi Gordon Bernat-Kunin, PhD
May 10, 2023
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Reflections
The Days Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the Ten Days of Repentance and include the Fast of Gedaliah.
The Observant Life (Book)
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Rabbi Alan Lucas
September 7, 2022
High Holidays
Holidays
Juneteenth 5782: Kiddush Over Red Drink
Gulienne Rollins-Rishon reflects on Juneteenth which commemorates the complete ending of legal slavery in the United States.
Gulienne Rollins-Rishon
June 17, 2022
Holidays
Juneteenth (US)
Learning about Mental Illness from Ruth
Risa Sugarman teaches that comparing Ruth's strengths to owning our own positive attributes as primary instead of our mental illness.
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
May 20, 2022
Illness
Shavuot
The Important Thing That Keeps our Family “Doing Jewish”
The most important thing to teach the next generation is how to make a seder, including what comes before the festival candles are even lit.
Atty Garfinkel-Berry
April 13, 2022
Food
Passover
When the COVID Plague Threatens Your Seder (Again)
Here are 10 tips on how to make Pesah meaningful and kosher (enough) even when the plague of COVID continues to threaten our celebrations.
Rabbi Ilana C. Garber
April 13, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections
Mah Nishtanah: How Is This Moment Different?
Mah Nishtanah: How is This Moment Different by Rabbi Rachel Ain is a reflection on her recent trip to Ukraine in 2022.
Rabbi Rachel Ain
April 6, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections
Ask the Questions and Dig Deeper
Combining lessons from the Mishnah and Human Resources, we realize that asking questions is the path to greater understanding.
Chaim H. Respes
April 3, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections
The Four Questions and Living with Mental Illness
We have the opportunity to help teens create long-lasting positive connections to the very traditions they are appropriately questioning.
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
March 31, 2022
Health
Illness
Spiritually Cleaning the Hametz Within Our Souls
With all of this physically taxing work, it can be easy to miss the spiritual preparation for this celebration of our collective redemption.
Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz
March 31, 2022
Passover
Preparing for Passover
Including non-Jewish guests at our Seder: A reflection
Reflecting on the universal nature of the Exodus, as "eternally contemporary; it’s the story of too many peoples."
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
March 29, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections