Real forgiveness is not only between perpetrator and victim, but on all of us to create a new system where none of what has occurred may ever ever ever occur again. By Rachael Bregman Maimonides, the great 12th-century Spanish-Israeli philosopher, and sage taught that true t’shuvah or repentance, has happened when you are given the opportunity to wrong the same wrong and you don’t. While it is too soon in the process of the #MeToo … [Read more...] about Laying the Ground Work for Repentance One Day: Teshuvah and #MeToo
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Muslim Zanzibar Gets Its First-Ever Jewish Center
By Dovid Margolin Winding alleyways make their way past carved doors before spilling into crowded marketplaces. Zanzibar, today an autonomous part of the East African country of Tanzania, was once, not too long ago, a Sultanate. The island - 23 miles off the African coast and colored by generations of Arab, Indian and European influences - has seen tourists flock there in increasing numbers, drawn not only by the exotic history but by the pure … [Read more...] about Muslim Zanzibar Gets Its First-Ever Jewish Center
Thrown Off the Sinking Ship
By A Jewish Educator I am a Jewish Educator. For almost my entire professional career I have worked in camps, day schools, and congregational schools. For well over a decade, I have been the full-time Director of Education at a mid-sized synagogue. I am a Jewish Educator - correction, I am a middle-aged woman who was fired from my job. The synagogue board apparently wants to go in a “new direction.” I was summoned to a meeting and … [Read more...] about Thrown Off the Sinking Ship
Season 5 Opens at Camp Gesher, California camp for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families
On August 5, 120 children aged 9 to 14 gathered at Shalom Institute in Malibu, California, for the fifth annual Camp Gesher, an overnight summer program for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families living in the western United States. Camp Gesher was launched in 2014 with the goal of helping strengthen campers’ connection to their Jewish identity, the wider Jewish community and Israel through education, skills-building activities and … [Read more...] about Season 5 Opens at Camp Gesher, California camp for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families
So That they May Live Among Us: The Uniqueness of Jewish Philanthropy
By Robert Hyfler [Originally published on eJP March 5, 2012] What is authentic and unique in Jewish philanthropy are both structure and approach and a much broadened definition of who we serve. The foundational text is in parshat Behar, Vayikrah (Leviticus) 25:35: If your brother becomes impoverished and his means falter in your proximity, you shall strengthen him - proselyte or resident - so that he can live you. A reading of this … [Read more...] about So That they May Live Among Us: The Uniqueness of Jewish Philanthropy
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