This is an excerpt from Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change “Marlene Juarez worked as a nanny for a family near Boston, taking care of four children ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years old; she organized play dates, cooked, did laundry and cleaned a […]
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Standing with the Stranger
A Spiritual Practice for Personal and Communal Healing Why empathy and action for asylum seekers is a spiritual practice During its first 80 years as a sizable minority in the United States (1900 – 1980) the American Jewish community featured prominently in the major social justice efforts of the century, from the labor movement to […]
Ideas for Democracy on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Given that Rosh Chodesh Tammuz and US Independence Day coincide this year I wanted to share a thought about religion, spirituality and democracy. Many traditional religious structures, with their hierarchies and emphasis on obedience and authority, don’t align so well with the flattened hierarchy of democracy, where the common citizen chooses their leaders and policies. Spirituality […]
The growing world of spirituality and social change
The Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project is part of a larger ecosystem made up of organizations and people of many faiths who are all interested in exploring and building on the intersections between spiritual practice and social change. In the Jewish community these include Reconstructing Judaism and their Reset Project and their Hashivenu podcast, Taproot and others. In the broader […]
Receiving and Passing on Torah in Sivan
Today is Rosh Chodesh Sivan – only five more days until Jewish communities around the world celebrate the gift of Torah. And, I have an exciting announcement: Please mark your calendars for the next Kirva Teshuva Workshop coming up on September 11 and September 19 at Mishkan Tefilla in Brookline! Webinar dates will be included in next […]
