“Activate: A New York Woman’s Perspective,” now at he Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, explores multifaceted expressions of feminine power amidst complex and fraught socio-political dynamics tied to bodies and heritage, intimacy and otherness, sex and religion.
In her newest work, the brilliant memoir “Touching the Art,” Sycamore examines her relationship with her grandmother Gladys.
I’m waiting for the day that my body isn’t a point of discussion at all
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
During a Tahara, the Jewish ritual for sanctifying a body after death, we wash the body in a continuous stream of water, we engage in spacious silence, and we recite words which affirm the inherent goodness of every soul, every life an entire world.
Amidst the violence, in response to the violence, we quietly sprinkle the world with this tender presence, creating a mirco-climate of love.
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Miriam Grossman: Today I need to keep my humanity. And today I need to keep going even without hope. Because hope will come one day.
A poem from Hila Ratzabi:
The earth will hold you better
Than God can.
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Sharon Brous: After the atrocities in Israel on Simhat Torah, we must remember the healing power of community, and the importance of compassion, solidarity and showing up.
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Angela Buchdal: Words matter, because the truth matters. Let’s take care to use the right ones.
