Rabbi Lori Shapiro
Can Mussar Help Us Repair the World?
Editor’s Note: A longer version of this article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal on July 22,2020. Revolution is complex and not for the fainthearted. Most of us are not meant to be Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. or Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, yet the fate of the world rests upon the work of […]
My Road to the “Open Dor”
The road to creating Open Temple is over two decades long. As someone who didn’t grow up with any Jewish identity, an unaffiliated Jew on the “periphery,” countless hours, weeks and well, years, were spent trying to penetrate the world of Jewish life. In the years of my nascent curiosity, when I walked up to […]