The month of Iyar has a lot in common with Chol HaMoed, the intermediate days of the festivals of Passover and Sukkot. Just like these two week-long holidays start and end with holy days, with several week-like days in-between, so this time of year is bookended by major festivals with a long period of regular life […]
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The Soul Curriculum of Your Organization
This article was originally posted by The Jewish Federations of North America as part of their series Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement. The school management team’s off-site annual retreat was about to descend into chaos as two key players representing opposing interests, the chief financial officer and the dean of students, refused to compromise […]
Spotlight: Liz Aeschlimann and Changing the World from the Inside Out at Vassar
This blog is intended to feature community members and leaders doing great work with the concepts from Changing the World from the Inside Out. Read on to get a sense of the ways in which these concepts come alive in community! Here, we get the chance to learn from Elizabeth Aeschlimann, Rachlin Director for Jewish Student […]
MLK and Mussar on Society’s Priorities- A Warning Worth Heeding
It is 50 years since the greatest social justice prophet of our time, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. One year earlier, on April 4, 1967, he gave a powerful and controversial speech about the Vietnam war that linked the civil rights struggle and the anti-war movement. In this speech […]
Embodied Freedom: The Traditions of Passover
BY DAVID JAFFE This article was originally posted on Shambhala.com. The Passover prayer book, or Haggadah, that my family used when I was growing was in English, Hebrew, and transliteration of the Hebrew. The story told is that when I was nine years old, I cut out strips of white paper and taped them over […]