Multiracial Jewish America: Telling Our Stories
January 8, 2025
Understanding ourselves as multiracial Jewish community would far better equip us as U.S. Jews to fight antisemitism.
Understanding ourselves as multiracial Jewish community would far better equip us as U.S. Jews to fight antisemitism.
God is the space between the one who needs and the one who is needed.
Jews on college campuses across the continent are forming independent groups they call Judaism on Our Own Terms. The impetus is often constraints by institutions about what topics can be discussed and who counts as a Jew.
Equanimity is not resignation or apathy.
How do we giddily celebrate the world gone mad in Shushan when our weather foretells our world gone mad?
“Do you know that rocks can talk?” I asked this question when I taught a unit on geology when our two now-adult daughters (one a writer, one a Reconstructionist rabbi) were in fourth grade. They STILL talk about that. I described the three kinds of rocks — sedimentary, igneous and
Our responsibility is to assert as legitimate the religious identity of those converting to Judaism and those who transition to a different gender identity. We can learn from our support of each of these groups about how to support the other.
Through practicing gratitude and recognizing the complexities of privilege, we are better suited to pursue the work of changing the world.
The concept of “democracy” was essential and basic to Kaplan, even more than “civilization.”
We should not ignore what is happening in our own backyards.
The current anti-immigration crusade mirrors the rhetoric and actions of the last anti-immigration movement 100-plus years ago.
Torah admonishes us (36 times!) to love the immigrant as the Holy One does.
This family history teaches us about mid-20th-century American Jews and white privilege.
A story hidden from Jewish historians and others who think about what being Jewish means and meant.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
