Ethics

Halakhah is in the doing, and our ability to pass that practice down to the next Jewish generation depends on whether or not we can give it the significance it had for the lives of our ancestors.

We call on the Jewish community to stay steadfast in racial justice transformation.

Interrupting ancestral patterns can be an important way to “honor your father and mother.”

My great-grandmother tells me that things have always been bad — that things have never been “normal” or calm or safe.

We should not change our behavior just because we think it might help us avoid trouble.

Creating communities of practice where accountability and ethical conversation are norms of everyday life.

Knowing and interacting with neighbors can be hard.

What if all these rules about how to read Torah are skills that also apply to the person sitting across from us?

Arguments that tie subjective notions of morality to the measure of brain function are fraught with pitfalls.