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.

Personal Practices for Defending Democracy

What can each of us do to protect democracy in the United States?

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.

Ethics, Israel and Palestine, Spiritual Practice, Uncategorized

A Psalm of Outrage at Deception and Lies

September 3, 2024
by Rabbi Michael Strassfeld

Community

Symposium: Practices for Defending Democracy

September 3, 2024
by Evolve

Symposium on Democracy.

Community, Uncategorized

Sustaining Democracy Amid Cultural Pluralism: Mordecai Kaplan’s Vision

September 2, 2024
by Rabbi Bill Plevan PhD

Kaplan was committed to democracy as an intrinsically good way of life.

Community, Uncategorized

A Jewish Embrace of Democracy: Early Reconstructionist Judaism and America’s Promise

September 2, 2024
by Rabbi Deborah Waxman

Reconstructionist thinkers embraced democracy as both a key strategy and an ultimate truth.

Episode 56
August 29, 2024

If we embrace Judaism, what do we do with passages from Torah and elsewhere that seem to directly undermine our worldviews and values? Human rights attorney turned rabbinical student Maria Pulzetti makes a compelling case that we should deal with these problematic biblical passages head-on.

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.