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Growing up, I couldn’t have told you that Tisha B’Av is a Jewish holiday. But last week, that day felt alarmingly relevant to the moment we are all living through. Tisha B’Av is a day of mourning for the disasters that have befallen our people, originally the destruction of both Temple…
For Marsha and Mark Barsman, being active members of the Jewish community goes beyond just giving money. “It’s honoring and respecting others,” Mark said. “I’m a third-generation Am…
“At any point during all of my volunteering, if someone asked me, ‘what’s the most important thing to you other than your family,’ my answer always is the Jew…
We have been challenged in the last several months, both as individuals and as a community, to respond to rising tensions over racial justice, an increase in antisemitism, and to COVID-19—in addition to our own personal struggles. But as our summer fellow from Hebrew Union College-Jewish I…
These past few weeks gave us a taste of normalcy, only to have it sour in the summer heat. After success toward flattening the curve on COVID-19 cases and excitement about summertime easing of restrictions, we've faced alarming new summertime surges. These surges combined with increasing unc…