Six Breaths
By Emil Sher We forgot to bring the challah cover Sophie made as a child, the Hebrew letters fringed like a picture book sun. Our daughters make do on this November night in their mid-town [...]
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Building Community in the Desert
From Bamidbar to Burning Man The Jewish people wandered in the desert for 40 years, transforming from a ragtag group of freed slaves into a cohesive nation. So it’s not surprising that a dynamic, creative [...]
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Strengthening Your Connections at Shabbat Dinner
From Friday night dinners throughout his life to his leading role in launching the crowd-funded loan venture SparkIL, read a reflection about Noah Allen’s experiences with connecting and reconnecting around the Shabbat table. How do [...]
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Hosting a Pride Shabbat with Joy, Action, and Community
Get inspired for your Pride Shabbat with these tips from Keshet You have one more Shabbat in June to celebrate Pride 2022! Whether you’re LGBTQ+ or an ally, you may be wondering how to bring [...]
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Finding Shalom in Shabbat
by Carrie Seleman Celebrating Shabbat is about ending the week with intention and prioritizing your most important relationships. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month – a time to acknowledge that for many, their home life [...]
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How Cooking Becomes My Therapy, Opening Me Up For Powerful Change
When the simmering tea kettle begins to whistle and shake in a movie, it’s a signal that tensions are rising in the scene. The metaphorical boiling point is reached between the characters and we’re taught [...]
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Finding the Funny on Shabbat
Jews using humor to deal with suffering is a tale as old as...well...Jews, probably. I always think of the Sarah Silverman quote — “Comedy puts light into darkness and darkness can’t live where there’s light. [...]
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Hosting a Solidarity Shabbat
During the week we lose some of the light in our eyes; it is restored to us by the reflection of light in our kiddush cup on Shabbat. —Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 113b Whether Friday night is [...]
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Good Vibrations | Pleasure, Rejuvenation & Shabbat
Shabbat is all about pleasure and rejuvenation. During this time of social distancing, we want to bring that sexy sparkle back to Shabbat... so we partnered with Awakening, Denver Colorado’s premier sex-positive boutique, to bring [...]
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On Giving, Shabbat, and COVID-19
With the structure of daily life disrupted, Shabbat remains a weekly beacon rooting us in time and place, a deliberate pause when we can reflect and connect. How has your sense of self altered amid [...]
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