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Community BlogTa Sh’ma 2024 Community Welcome from the President: On Seeing and Being Seen

Pluralistic Perspectives Empathy Activism

On March 31, 2014, along with dozens of my colleagues, I shaved my head. Bald. N...

Community Blog Hevruta: Shaping a New Era in Jewish Education

Hebrew College and The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem are on the cutting ...

Community Blog Diversity: A Reflection

Growing up in Belmont, I knew about Bedford in two distinct ways. First, that th...

Pluralistic Perspectives Learning to Live with Loss

In its March 26, 2013, obituary of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, The New York Times r...

Community Blog Laverne Cox’s Brave New Platform

This month our Rising Voices Fellows respond to statements by and about Jewish...

Pluralistic Perspectives Jewish Memory Week: A Tale in Three Parts

The memory of the Holocaust today is vulnerable. Between the Diaspora and Israel...