Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations

Enrich Your Passover Experience

Explore a variety of ways to understand Pesakh and to immerse in its practices.

We have curated a series of essays that open discussions and analyses of Passover by Erica Riddick, Rabbi Margie Jacobs, Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Max Buckler, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, Rabbi Vivie Mayer, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, z”l, Dr Shoshana Fershtman and Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein.

Covenantal Community

What are our commitments to one another as part of a sacred community?

Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations

Evolve is an online platform with conversation-sparking essays from thought-provoking rabbis, leaders and creators. Explore essays on key topics, as well as curricula, sermon sparks and videos that apply the best thinking to contemporary questions.

Israel and Palestine

The Language Without Words

December 9, 2024
by Razi Hecker

That day, I took off from work to play soccer with the brothers of the Bedouin girl who was injured in Iran’s missile attack.

Gender, Spiritual Practice

Joseph’s Bones

December 9, 2024
by Rabbi Irwin Keller

I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.

Israel and Palestine

Netanyahu’s Government in 2023-2024: The Failure of Ideology, Strategy and Politics

December 9, 2024
by Dr. Ilan Peleg

The personal role of Benjamin Netanyahu in implementing the ideology of the Nationalist Right cannot be overemphasized.

Israel and Palestine, Spiritual Practice

Are We Maccabees? Hanukkah in a Time of Conflict

December 9, 2024
by Rabbi Benjamin Weiner

The Maccabees, at least in their early days, were standard-bearers of the fundamentalist camp.

Episode 59
October 31, 2024

Democracy holds a special place in Reconstructionist teachings liturgy and practice. Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., and Rabbi William Plevan, Ph.D., dive deep into Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s — the founding thinker of Reconstructionist Judaism — thinking on democracy and pluralism and why it matters today.

Web Conversations

Evolve Web Conversations are opportunities for you to interact with our authors in real-time, by asking questions and challenging their assumptions. Videos and transcripts are posted in an archive for those who are unable to attend live.