Justice

How can we unlearn the harmful teachings society places upon us and move toward liberation for fat people — and therefore, for all people?

The Mishnah mandates that people beyond the gender binary must be protected from all forms of harm. This so much more comprehensive than anything we have today to shield us from attacks.

Can joint peace groups like the Combatants for Peace make a difference, particularly in these very dark times?

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.