Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations

Endings and Beginnings

Just as we open the door to new adventures, we close another door behind us.

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.

Spiritual Practice

How Can We Pray to God for Compassion?

We don’t have to believe in supernaturalism to believe in a God who hears our prayers.

Climate Justice & Environmentalism

Protecting Water, Healing Ourselves and the Earth

When I remember water, I allow myself to be transformed, to remember myself in utero, untouched by the violence of this world.

Spiritual Practice

Where Are You? ‘Ayekah’? A Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Practice

Listening with total openness means allowing oneself to be changed, to be called to respond.

Climate Justice & Environmentalism

Praying for Rain: Redrawing the Circle

Everything we do and dream isn’t built upon or etched in stone, but rather relies on whether or not it is going to rain.

Episode 45
September 28, 2023

Divorce may be normal, but, in too many Jewish communities, it hasn’t been normalized. This episode features Ariel Collis and Reb. Ezra Weinberg, who each have experienced divorce and been underwhelmed by the response within their Jewish communities and are advocating for change.

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.