Sid Schwarz News Today

Good Thursday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new climate action initiative by Repair the World ahead of Passover and Earth Day, and  feature an opinion piece by Rabbi Sid Schwarz calling on American Jews to set aside their preconceived notions...

For less-distracted reading over the weekend, browse this week’s edition of The Weekly Print, a curated print-friendly PDF featuring a selection of recent eJewishPhilanthropy, Jewish Insider and The Circuit stories, including: Live2Tell: New Holocaust remembrance project gives voice to survivors; The White House knows Iran is behind the...

In Venice, California, Open Temple’s High Holiday Ritual Lab invites all comers to approach the High Holiday season through pathways that manage to simultaneously be deeply-rooted in Judaism and enchantingly unconventional.

The following article is offered as a partnership between <I>eJP</i> and the Clergy Leadership Incubator program (CLI). CLI is a two-year program to support and encourage congregational rabbis and rabbinic entrepreneurs in the areas of innovative thinking, change management and institutional transformation. CLI is directed by Rabbi Sid Schwarz and is fiscally sponsored by Adamah: People, Planet, Purpose (formerly, Hazon). Each month CLI offers a Synagogue Innovation Blog. Past column...

The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

Keshira haLev Fife is well known in the Jewish community of her native Pittsburgh, where she conducts Shabbat services and Hebrew school classes. But she’s not your average prayer leader or educator. As a self-described “proud Jewish woman of color,” she said she “sprinkles, sparkles, disrupts expectations and offers blessings in the service of the Divine.” She is a kohenet (Hebrew priestess), part of a small but growing international movement of mostly queer women, including self-d...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Keshira haLev Fife is well known in the Jewish community of her native Pittsburgh, where she conducts Shabbat services and Hebrew school classes.

Don’t call them ‘fringe’: Innovative Jewish groups seek respect from the mainstream February 18, 2021 12:56 pm Keshira haLev Fife, a kohenet (Hebrew priestess), is the founder and leader of Kesher Pittsburgh, an independent, post-denominational Jewish community. (Courtesy of Fife) Advertisement (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Keshira haLev Fife is well known in the Jewish community of her native Pittsburgh, where she conducts Shabbat services and Hebrew schoo...