Shabbat may be the greatest gift the Jews gave to the world. Without it (and union activists) would we even have a week-end?! This January, when we are all in search of healing — from the traumas of 2020 and the tumultuous start of 2021 — the calendar has given us an BONUS Shabbat. And Read More
Author: Jodi Kushins
Thoughts for a Happy Secular-Jewish New Year
This weekend, I finally picked up Jonathan Safran Foer’s We Are the Weather which was included in my swag bag from the Jewish Farmer Network Gathering last winter. His writing in the nearly 70 page introduction is at once informative and prophetic; a call for action to mitigate the climate crisis and an analysis of the cultural Read More
Chanukah – 8 Days for Climate Change
Chanukah begins tonight at sundown. Many take this time to celebrate possibilities – that a small army can defeat a larger one and that right will overcome might. But it is also a time for Jews to imagine a brighter world brought about through energy conservation. As we live through and work to halt climate Read More
Marking Time, Making Community
The Jewish people have survived millennia by recreating our traditions and rituals. Sukkat Shalom is blessed to be dually-inspired towards this goal through our connections with Reconstructing Judaism and ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Reconstructionism teaches us that Judaism is an evolving civilization. As such it is our duty as Jews to find ways to Read More
Moving Towards and Into 5781
We in Kehilat Sukkat Shalom are excited to announce a new phase of our development as a dynamic grass-roots, community-grown Jewish organization. Earlier this summer, we celebrated the marriage of our beloved Rabbi Jessica Shimberg to her beshert (soulmate) Eric Stillman. Rabbi Jessica has followed her heart to Nashville where Eric serves as CEO of Read More