Justice

There is work to do, lives are at stake and our ancestors are depending on us to carry forward the legacy of accountability to this sacred obligation.

We have a hard road ahead, but not a lonely one. We have each other. And we have the Divine at our side, at our back, and within us.

It is important to find a sustainable sense of balance and long-term hope throughout a period of challenge, loss, disappointment and fear.

Why do progressive communities, whose members themselves have been marginalized, then proceed to marginalize others in their new communities?

Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.

Finding the strength to read Bilhah and Zilpah as possessing power and autonomy helps me do that for myself.

As a marginalized person, I have long found the Yom Kippur liturgy to be as damaging as it is powerful.

“We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism.” — Timothy Snyder

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