Guest Blog

 

5 Questions with Connect Jewish Tucson

We asked Jacob Meyer, Community Impact Manager at Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona (JPSA), and Naomi Sandweiss, Director of Jewish Community Engagement at the Tucson J and JPSA, about their experiences implementing a Powered By [...]
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Host Training with The Dinner Party

Since 2021, The Dinner Party has used a Powered By OneTable platform to build a community of 20-, 30-, and early 40-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a parent, partner, child, sibling, other [...]
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A OneTable Love Story for Tu B’Av

It’s Tu B’Av, sometimes referred to as Jewish Valentine’s Day, and to help everyone get into a celebratory mood we have quite a OneTable love story to share! In late 2019, Allie Egrin had just [...]
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Active Inclusivity: How to Be Inclusive During Shabbat

We talk about inclusivity all of the time, but what does it mean to be actively inclusive? How do we ensure all people are able to fully participate in whatever way they are showing up? [...]
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An Oasis of Shabbat: MINYAN TLV

Oz Fishman and Lipaz Ela are the co-founders of MINYAN TLV, a Tel Aviv-based organization that builds communities and Jewish experiences that are diverse, creative, and speak the language of now. We sat down with [...]
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Make Your Shabbat Green

Jonathan Schorsch, from the Green Sabbath Project, shares reflections in this guest blog post on how to rewild your Shabbat for an unexpected and profoundly powerful remedy for our era of environmental catastrophes. For more [...]
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Hosting a Planet-Friendly Vegan Shabbat: It All Ties Together

Lisa Apfelberg, from Jewish Veg, shares ideas in this guest blog post about cooking for and hosting a planet-friendly vegan Shabbat. I see the tie between a plant-based dinner and Shabbat so clearly. When I [...]
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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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