Interview on A Bear for Bimi / written by Jane Breskin Zalben:
What Can I Do to Help?
“Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”
No other words so perfectly capture the essence of tikkun olam (repair of the world) as those written by the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. He was reflecting on a seminal moment in the fight for civil rights that took place in 1965, when he joined Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of others as they marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
How Good It Is for a Community to Come Together
The Most Important Stories Always Have a Song
Have No Fear, Pinky Bloom Is Here!
When Celebrating Sukkot, ‘The More the Merrier’
Healing the World with Two Simple Words
Tekiah!
Something New for Rosh Hashanah: Be Like the Moon
Before there was a set calendar for the Jewish year, the beginning of a new month would be declared by the Jewish court when the new moon emerged in the sky. To let the people know, fires would be set on hilltops.
Today, as in ancient times, the moon’s journey around the earth takes approximately 29 days. The lunar cycle, however, doesn’t start when the moon is full. The new moon that marks the beginning of the month is invisible to the human eye, filling out mid-cycle before fading away again....