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If we are to successfully turn the tide against Trump-ism, it’s crucial to recognize the ways in which these factors are interconnected to efficiently address them at their roots.
Not once, in my combined ten years at Ramah in the Berkshires and Ramah in the Rockies, did anyone mention the Occupation. We don’t talk about it because we want to pretend it doesn’t exist every summer.
My fear is, if we similarly enshrine this definition into law, outside groups will try and suppress – rather than answer – political speech they don’t like.
The call for vulnerability in community allows for people to open and eventually come as their full selves.
Perhaps, in the future, Hebron will be transformed from a place focused on burial and death to a place where the silenced get their voices back and speak up to share a multiplicity of narratives.
“And when I started approaching religion from that space, God had a sex change for me.”
Because we pick up on others emotions naturally, the empathic instinct of our nervous system can eventually become exhausted, whether we consciously or unconsciously engage in an act of empathy
Judaism, like any organism, only lives when it can breathe some outside air.
Jacob has learned that the most effective means of connecting with people who are actively resistant to or confused by some or much of the queer community is via vulnerability, empathy, compassion, forgiveness, and human-to-human connection.
Prison is where Harvey Weinstein should be, because, for one thing, there is zero guarantee that he will stop preying on women.