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.

Practices for Defending Democracy

What can each of us do to protect democracy in the United States? Review multiple perspectives from Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Rabbi David Teutsch, Sabrina Sojourner, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Rabbi Michael Pollack, Rabbi Alex Weissman, Ruth Messinger, Andy Levin and more.

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.

Climate Justice & Environmentalism

Learning About Humpback Whales: How Assumptions Can Mislead Us

November 11, 2024
by Rabbi Bob Gluck

Maybe the search to understand sonic expression in other species cannot be learned through a human lens.

Israel and Palestine

The Mothers’ Cry: ‘Za’akat Ha’Imahot’

November 11, 2024
by Dr. Nurete Brenner

With broken hearts and voices ravaged by tears, we call for the embrace of the value of life over the celebration of death.

Israel and Palestine

Confession of a Disillusioned Israeli

November 11, 2024
by Mike Shore

I didn’t want to face what we are culpable for, nor did I want to acknowledge what we were capable of.

End of Life, Spiritual Practice

Rituals of Grief

November 11, 2024
by Myra Sack

The presence of her absence fills the spaces where she used to be; the presence of her absence, that is what we live with now.

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.