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Tisha B’Av–An Annual Pause to Stop Sinat Hinam–Baseless Hatred
by Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Director of Alumni and Community Engagement at AVODAH, and alumna of the JOIN’s Seminary Leadership Project. This article was originally posted on AVODAH: Jewish Voices Pursuing Peace. Is there such a thing as sinat hinam –baseless … Read More
SLP Alumnus Hard at Work in New Jersey Shul
Rabbi Greg Litcofsky, alumnus of JOIN’s Seminary Leadership Project (where rabbinical and cantorial students learn organizing skills through classes, workshops and internships) and current JOIN for Justice board member, recently left Massachusetts to take up a new role at a … Read More
Excerpt from “Rabbis in Red Lipstick”
by Dasi Fruchter (Alumna of JOIN’s Seminary Leadership Project) …Alongside my graduate studies, however, I’ve also chosen recently to embark on a another journey towards social change through spiritual leadership. I’ve enrolled and begun to learn at Yeshivat Maharat, a … Read More
JOIN Alum Builds Jewish Power for Pursuing Justice in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia metropolitan area may present some exciting new horizons in the world of Jewish organizing. It occupies a strategically important position in a politically important “swing state”, is home to a large and established Jewish community, and may harbor … Read More
To Reclaim Politics
Rabbi Noah Farkas delivered this high holiday sermon at Valley Beth Shalom. When the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to investigate the American prison system, he instead discovered the inner workings of American democracy. Coming from … Read More
