Nooo so sorry!
There are tons of amazing communities in the Bay Area. In SF proper Sha'ar Zahav comes to mind (in the Mission). If you travel on Shabbos, Kehilah and Chochmat HaLev in the East Bay are both lovely and very progressive if that's what you're looking for
Yes. And the American Jewish establishment really needs to start speaking about Palestinian lives so that individual clergy who do are not perceived by their communities as: a) outliers b) antisemitic c) out of touch with "mainstream" Jewish voices d) all of the above
I'm planning to take a big chunk of the last week of August to try and draft my sermons and I: a) don't know where to start b) am afraid anything I write in August will feel irrelevant by Oct c) am scared of offending people by either being too forward or by not saying enough. I feel you.
how exciting!!
I will always, always love The West Wing. But lord, Aaron, really?
Thank you everyone! These are fantastic! (Google is just very overwhelming and I always prefer personal recs)
FWIW there actually are people who identify as Zionists who are out there protesting the war, because Zionist really does mean a *lot* of different things to different people. I wrote about it here: www.heyalma.com/what-we-lose...
Are you a Zionist or an anti-Zionist? Depending on who’s asking and your answer, you could find yourself embraced or cast out, trusted or scorned. Zionists and anti-Zionists might hear that they’re Na...
In my religion, it is not "effacing God's glory" to destroy embryos. Embryos are not children. As @theradr.bsky.social reminded us, the "unborn child" is considered "mere fluid" for the 1st 40 days past conception. The "unborn child" is not a life until it's *crowning*.