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In her essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, classicist Mary Beard prompts us to think about power in ways that are countercultural to current norms. Power, she argues, is often treated as “something…

A series of eleven lithographs by Picasso might not seem themost likely of “texts” upon which to meditate in the weeks anddays leading up to Yom Kippur. We are generally directed to poreover the laws…

Jewish educators are, by nature, responsive and reactive. They are required to deliberately infuse Jewish content in teaching students and communities that are dynamic. In the past two and a half…

Space informs practice within it. It affects how we spiritually engage, how we socialize, how we conduct our professional environments, how we live in our homes. As philosopher Alain de Botton put…

Creating sacred space refers to deliberately defining, giving express purpose to, and sanctifying space through restriction/limitation. After having spent many years teaching in a variety of…

Tisha B’Av: The peak of a reversed Avelut process Tisha B’Av is the Jewish people’s national day of mourning. It is the day on which we sit shiva and mourn the loss of our Holy Temple – as well as…

An ark, of scarlet Round, not square Two or three segments within Like the seal of a ring, fitted, fair Before the time of the flood, before Noah, Created and by the hand of God She appears like the…

On a cold and brisk morning in March, over a decade ago, I ran my first half marathon. I had always been athletic, but never a runner, and so I took the opportunity – at a hectic and full moment in…