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Shavuot: Write the vision. Make it plain.

By pwsbuilder / May 28, 2020 / Comments Off

How long must I wrestle with my thought and day after day have sorrow in my heart How long will my enemy triumph over me? -Psalms 13:2 Shavuot is one of the biblically-based pilgrimage holidays known as the shalosh regalim. It is celebrated as the divine revelation of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah. Pentecost is…

A circle of photos with the words'remember'in hebrew.

Yom HaShoah 2020

By pwsbuilder / April 21, 2020 / Comments Off

A name is a life, a story, a whole world – relationships, thoughts, feelings and dreams, dreams, dreams. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, the air we breathe is filled with lives and worlds and dreams as Jewish communities all over the world read the names of those who perished in the Holocaust. Six…

Being alone with God: Reflections on The Soul of the Stranger

By pwsbuilder / March 31, 2020 / Comments Off

[Above: Joy Ladin reads at the Intersections office on March 10, 2020] On March 10, 2020, Believe Out Loud and Intersections hosted author and academic Joy Ladin in our New York office for a reading and discussion celebrating her book The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. It was…

The pink triangle was rediscovered as a sign of pride for the gay community in 1990.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By pwsbuilder / January 27, 2020 / Comments Off

Today, January 27th, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The pink triangle was a symbol of oppression against homosexuals during the Nazi regime, but it has been reclaimed by the LGBT community as a sign of hope and recognition.

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By pwsbuilder / March 28, 2018 / Comments Off