This past weekend, KSS Vice President Cheryl Lubow voted “yes” on behalf of our kehilah in a meeting of the Reconstructing Judaism Plenum, a group representing all the congregations and chavurot affiliated with the movement. The vote was in support of a movement-wide resolution calling for study, reflection, discussion, and action around reparations (click here Read More
Category: Social Justice
“Just Don’t Be Mean” – A Path to Dignity
As we have for several years now, here in the Columbus Jewish community we will be honoring JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, this February. JDAIM (originally JDAM, the “I” for inclusion was added later) was started in 2008, at a gathering of the Jewish Special Education International Consortium in Minneapolis, MN. The goal Read More
Human Rights Shmita-Shabbat
For many years Kehillat Sukkat Shalom (formerly The Little Minyan) has joined with the organization T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in honoring the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The service is always held on the Shabbat we Read More
What does it mean to defund the police? by Debra Seltzer
What does it mean to defund the police? Paisha Thomas from Faith in Public Life opened her comments by asking us to consider the city budget as a moral document, and the fact that one-third of our city’s budget is allocated to policing. Other cities have begun the process of diverting some of those funds Read More