Rashi Mitzvah Makers: Forging Multi-Generational Connections
“Everyone should have the opportunity to be with people of different generations. There is a lot we can all learn from each other.” – Jacob,...
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Four Questions with Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights - North America
Last month, Rabbi Jill Jacobs became Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America, an organization working to involve Rabbis in the...
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Body Worlds at the Atrium Mall: This is Wrong
I share Elianna Bresler's outrage at the plastized bodies exhibit at the Atrium Mall in Chestnut Hill (near Boston). Next we will have plasticized bodies...
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Four Questions with Jodi Rosenbaum, executive director of More Than Words
Jodi Rosenbaum sees treasure where others see trash. The executive director of More Than Words tells us how an abandoned pile of books by the...
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How MSNBC's Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral
How the MSNBC Ian Johnston take-down article on James Lovelockhappened and why now? This week, this month. When in fact, there was no news event...
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Hot Buttons: Conversations Without Women are Not Cool
by Gail T. Reimer, Executive Director of the Jewish Women's Archive A little over 15 years ago, I found my calling. While attending a Jewish...
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I Stand UP for the Silent
I Stand for the Silent Submitted by High School Junior Sarah C.of MA This week marked the exclusive premiere of the movie BULLY sponsored by...
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Larry Lowenthal's Speech from Seas the Dream
For those of you who were not able to attend our Seas the Dream event on Sunday May 1st: Lawrence Lowenthal, Ph.D., one of the night's honorees,...
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Meeting a Community’s Special Needs: First-ever Ruderman Foundation Conference Challenges Jewish Funders
Next week, as more than 100 funders gather in New York to consider how the community can meet the needs of some of its family...
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We Shall Overcome... Together. Jews and African Americans During the Civil Rights Movement
One of jobs as a history educator is to take events that might be abstract concepts to my students and facilitate their making some sort...
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