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Passover & Easter & the Interfaith Family
The two holidays will happen together this year. Here’s how to handle this. By Maayan Hoffman eJewish Philanthropy Passover and Easter collide this year, with Passover beginning at sundown on Friday and Eastern taking place on April 21. For Jewish-Christian interfaith families, this is a challenge and an opportunity, said Jodi Bromberg, chief executive officer of InterfaithFamily. eJewish Philanthropy sat down with Bromberg ahead of … [Read more...] about Passover & Easter & the Interfaith Family
Three’s A Crowd
In an era of increasing polarization, is there anything more important than finding a way to unite our community rather than to continue working in institutional, ideological and philosophical silos? By Sandy Cardin You don’t have to be a golfer or even a sports fan to appreciate the miraculous victory Tiger Woods achieved at The Masters tournament last Sunday. Slowly but surely, he plotted his way around the familiar terrain of Augusta … [Read more...] about Three’s A Crowd
Four Elements of Successful Change
Passover 2019 By Maya Bernstein Is there a recipe for change? A pinch of this, a cup of that, a dash of this, a spoon of that, bake at this temperature for that amount of time and, voila, a successful change process? Alas, we know it is much more complex. Yet the well-known but deceptively simple "Mah Nishtanah" text, traditionally chanted by a young child at the beginning of the Seder, might actually be as close to a recipe as we can get. … [Read more...] about Four Elements of Successful Change
The Messenger Who Can’t Speak (Pesach 5779)
By Andrés Spokoiny Do you think that leaders who are assertive, self-assured, speak clearly, and “call a spade a spade” are better leaders? Think twice. Harvard professor and author Steven Pinker shows that there’s a direct correlation between simplicity of speech and violence. He researched something called “integrative complexity,” which captures the sense of intellectual balance, nuance, and sophistication people’s speech, especially … [Read more...] about The Messenger Who Can’t Speak (Pesach 5779)
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