WEEK 3: Being Anti-Racist: Learning from the Sephira Hod – Humility/Gloryby Debra Seltzer For those of you who read my post in week one, about Israel-Palestine, I left some threads that connect to this week of introspection. I wrote that “the United States is my own country, with its own challenges which I am committed Read More
Category: Tikkun Olam
Preparing for the 5784 High Holy Days of Awe: Week 1
R’ Alan Lew suggested that we need to prepare ourselves if we expect to embrace the full potential of the High Holy Days of Awe. Thanks to KSS Social Action Team Leader Debra Seltzer for spearheading our activities this season. This is your formal invitation to join Sukkat Shalom for another seven week cycle of self-reflective provocations in Read More
A different kind of Chanukah Light. Tending Hope for Reparations
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
Summer Sparks
There is a lot going on in our small but mighty kehilah this summer. Throughout the month of Tammuz (June 30-July 29, 2022), the KSS Shmita Hive has been engaged in a collective creative practice and meditation to help us gather strength in the final months of this shmita cycle. Norah Zuniga Shaw (artist, teacher, Read More
Finding Joy in Welcoming the Strangers Among US
The following offering comes to us from Dan Barash, member of the KSS Social Action Team. Dan’s words come at a perfect time — the end of the leap month Adar 1 and the beginning of Adar 2 — a time designated in our calendar for increasing joy. He reminds us that doing mitzvot, like Read More
“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
Building a Shelter of Peace in the Face of Fear
On January 15th, while we were marking Tu b’Shvat with a Shabbaton focused on what Judaism has to teach us as we live into and through unsettling times, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three other people with whom he was making Shabbat were held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. After two weeks to 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