Culture
How to be Effective at Your Thanksgiving Table This Year
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Ever had a frustrating experience on Thanksgiving with friends or family? Here are some tips on how to navigate that at your Thanksgiving table 2017.
Environment
A modest measure to prevent cruelty and improve food safety
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This simple measure would upgrade California law by requiring not just more space, but cage-free conditions for farm animals.
Healing Israel/Palestine
Why A Ramah Counselor Spoke-Out About the Occupation at Ramah Headquarters Last Week
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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.
Politics & Society
Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern
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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.
Culture
Embracing the Stranger, Part IV: Knowing Ourselves to Know Others
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The call for vulnerability in community allows for people to open and eventually come as their full selves.
Judaism
This Week’s Torah Portion
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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.
art
Photo Series, Part III: Ramsal
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“And when I started approaching religion from that space, God had a sex change for me.”
Culture
Embracing the Stranger, Part III: A Place for Compassion in Activism
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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
Where Were You When Rabin Was Shot?
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Judaism, like any organism, only lives when it can breathe some outside air.
art
Photo Series, Part II: Jacob Klein
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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.