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Tearing Up

by Dr. David Sanders “Tears are the evidence of our inner life overflowing its boundaries, spilling over into consciousness. Wordless and spontaneous, they release us to the possibility of realignment, reunion, catharsis, intractable resistance short-circuited.”   The quote is from a photograph book of tears taken by Rose-Lynn Fisher (The Read more…

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Time flies.

by Melanie Gruenwald At Kabbalah Experience’s Time and When are you? classes, we explore the concept of time as a construct. We agree we’ll meet at 3:30pm. Three-thirty of what? Mountain Time? Eastern time? It’s like saying, “I’ll meet you at the corner of Amsterdam and 189th.” Those streets were Read more…

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Pre-Tending

by Dr. David Sanders In her article, Many Masks, Many Selves, Professor Wendy Doniger relates the following: “When Ronald Reagan auditioned for the role of the President of the United States in the 1960 Broadway production of Gore Vidal’s play, The Best Man, about the presidential election, Vidal turned him Read more…

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Celebrating our differences: Jewish Disabilities Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month (JDAIM)

In February, we celebrate Jewish Disabilities Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month. (JDAIM). As the Executive Director of a forward-thinking organization, and having had a son with disabilities, I often feel like I know of what I speak. However, a well-meaning student highlighted ‘ableist’ language in a curriculum I shared, and Read more…