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.

The Year Since October 7

A Septet of Diverse Reflections. Review multiple perspectives from Rabbis Amy Klein, Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Nina Mandel, Vivie Mayer, Haviva Ner-David, David Teutsch and Professor Joel Hecker.

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.

Community

Symposium: Practices for Defending Democracy

October 2, 2024
by Evolve

Symposium on Democracy.

Israel and Palestine, Spiritual Practice

The Light That Has the Capacity to Hold Us All

September 29, 2024
by Rabbi Vivie Mayer

What is the prayer that penetrates the body and mind to awaken to the Power that makes for Connection?

God, Spiritual Practice

Nothing So Whole as a Broken God: The ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ and Process Theology

September 29, 2024
by Chloe Zelkha

God is the ground of being, the truth that we so often run away from or delude ourselves about.

Race

When Race, Politics and Jewish Studies Collide: Censorship and the Debate Over Black Power, Jewish Politics

September 29, 2024
by Dr. Marc Dollinger

Academics must center white racial privilege in our analyses.

Episode 57
September 26, 2024

It’s not easy to talk about and process the first anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, when war continues to widen, hostages remain in Gaza and a ceasefire seems less and likely. This wide-ranging episode featuring Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Ph.D. and Elliott Glassenberg, aims to model such a conversation.

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.