How one Synagogue’s Social Justice Engagement Led the Way to Renewal and Revitalization
In the late fall of 2016, I was making plans for the next phase of my rabbinical career. As fate would have it, the morning after Election Night, as Donald Trump crossed the 270-vote threshold in the electoral college, I was preparing to board a plane from my then-home in Oakland, California to the East Coast. I had a weekend visit to a synagogue in New Jersey, and a Skype interview with a synagogue in Massachusetts. The weekend was lovely, but it would be that Skype session that led to my current role. I sat in the basement of a friend’s house in Rockland County, 20 miles north of Manhattan. The smiling faces on my screen exuded warmth, but it was flecked with distress — and […]
