Intersectionality: Another Perspective
When it comes to social justice, there are two primary modalities: achieving and understanding. Most activists are achievers — they wish to solve systemic and societal problems.
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Religion
In this West African Country, a Jewish Community is Forming
Gathering in Jacqueville, a coastal town in the country known in English as the Ivory Coast, the community members answered questions in front of a rabbinical court, or beit din, whose members flew in from Israel and the United States.
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Located at 8100 Stevenson Rd., Chizuk Amuno was founded in 1871 in East Baltimore. (Photo by Solomon Swerling, Jmore).
Taking a Stand
It was a defining moment for the congregation, but just as important was the aftershock that resounded through the city’s Jewish community.
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Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (JTA Collage/De Rosario photo: Courtesy of De Rosario; havdalah items photo: Wikimedia Commons)
This Jewish Day School is Hosting a Drag Queen Shabbat Ceremony
The school, together with local Jewish organizations, is hosting a Jewish version of Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program in which drag entertainers read stories to children. The goal of the program, launched in San Francisco in 2015, is to give kids “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”
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A Pluralistic Project for Millennials Takes a Page from the Chabad Playbook
The organization’s pluralist approach has drawn a tapestry of involved and unaffiliated Jews, mostly in their mid- to late 20s.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit in 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images via JTA)
What Martin Luther King Jr. Learned on a Visit to Jerusalem
On this Martin Luther King Day 2018, let us — Jews, Christians, Muslims and all people of conscience — reflect upon King’s only visit to Jerusalem in 1959.
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Congregants from Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, Pa., gathering at the local Tifereth Israel cemetery to bury ritual objects from their defunct synagogue, Dec. 31, 2017. (Alanna E. Cooper)
A Rust Belt Synagogue ‘Runs Out of People’ and Gathers to Bury its Past
Congregation Tifereth Israel was founded nearly 125 years ago. In 1894, synagogue members lived in a busy town with a suddenly booming economy.
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How this 31-Year-Old Londoner Became Poland’s Best-Known (and Most Controversial) Jew
Jonny Daniels, who has helped restore 100s of Jewish headstones and raised millions to honor saviors of Jews during the Holocaust, says his alliances and media profile are “helping Poles and Jews bridge their tragic history toward greater understanding that will reduce … anti-Semitism.”
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Elhanan Miller, a journalist and rabbinical student who speaks fluent Arabic, sees his videos as a way to bridge a religious divide. (Bruria Hammer)
This Rabbinical Student is Explaining Judaism to Muslims — in Arabic
Elhanan Miller’s new project, “People of the Book,” is a series of short animated videos that explain Jewish faith and ritual in Arabic and compare them to similar Muslim practices.
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Simply Jewish
My experience has been that the rabbi only really begins to know the inner thinking and spiritual wrestling of one wishing to become a Jew-by-choice by building trust that allows them to share their thoughts honestly.
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Intersectionality — It’s Not What You Think
Our first act of advocacy upon moving to Baltimore was, with the help of the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, to guilt the city into repairing the broken walk signal at Linden Avenue.
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