Reflections for Havdalah
This reflection was part of a young adults havdalah in Manchester on 2 March. A reflection for Adar Aleph. Right now, we sit in the month of Adar Aleph, the month added to the Jewish calendar seven times every nineteen…
Laziness is no longer an option: responding to Pittsburgh
By Ben Lewis, RSY-Netzer movement worker 2015/16 and Communications Consultant for Reform Judaism I don’t usually go to synagogue on a Saturday morning - the temptation of laziness tends to keep me more often in bed when the service is…
Grasping Yom Ha’atzmaut
By Joanna May Sutton-Klein As Yom Ha’atzmaut races towards us this year, I find myself struggling to know how I want to meet it. I think back to the Yom Ha’atzmauts of my childhood, I spent them innocently dancing round…
On Lulav and Etrog: Holding in my hands the world where I am and the world I want to create
By Sara Moon, Sheffield and District Reform Jewish Community Development Worker and an organic food grower. “You shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of hadar trees, the branches of date palms, boughs of leafy trees and willows…