The Sea of Change
I don’t remember ever feeling this nervous and excited. I am on stage in front of nearly 200 of my colleagues, mic in hand, ready to kick off the Association of Reform Jewish Educators 2019 Annual Gathering. I was given the honor of being asked to co-chair the Gathering a little over a year ago. The past year has been a blur of emails to speakers, Google docs of schedules and hotel staging guides, phone calls with my co-chair, and Zoom meetings with the ARJE Professional L
לֹא יִשָּׂא גוֹי אֶל גוֹי חֶרֶב לֹא יִלְמְדוּ עוֹד מִלְחָמָה.
Nation shall not lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. -Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3 There is a heartbreak that has settled over a world just emerging from a pandemic. That painful chapter has rolled into the war raging in Ukraine, and the horror of watching the innocent being displaced and terrorized. Many of our ancestors came from the Pale of Settlement-made up western Ukraine- and we have a long relationship with the land and its challenges. We to
