SDCJC

So much of the Jewish (and Jewish-adjacent) story can be told through foods. The things that we serve and eat can place us in the context of history, time, and place – or bring us together across difference. For many of us, they can also raise questions of authenticity. Together we will cook a (savory) Egyptian […]

“Well, for instance, you want to be seen eating lunch/davening/studying with the right people!? So who are the right people? Well, those with Yichus/יחוס.” While the word originated in Hebrew, it is generally used to signify genealogy, lineage, taking into account the accomplishments of forbearers and current descendants in scholarship and religious observance. Come and […]

In this one hour session, Rabbi Lizz will give a broad overview of her view of Jewish Social Justice, and provide some useful sources texts directly from our sacred writings to illustrate how Jews should act not only with inclusion and tolerance in mind but with full advocacy for equity and justice for all.

Foundational narratives like those found in Oral and Written Torah clarify the fundamental existence of our people around meaningful motifs, values, rights, and responsibilities. How has the impulse that led Jews to recount and to document events given future generations access to what could have been forgotten? Whenever and wherever civil behavior toward Jews have […]

As the summer morphs into the month of Elul just before the High Holidays, I will go in and out of the revolving door of Heshbon Nefesh (the accounting of the soul). My fingers will knuckle down on the memory of unyielding bars on gates that have shut me out of Jewish treasures because of […]