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Silas Anastacio

Jul 20, 2026, 5:10 AM

Special Visit to Holocaust Memorial Brings Institutions Together in São Paulo

In July, the Holocaust Memorial, located in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of São Paulo, hosted a special visit that brought together around 50 participants. The group included representatives from TJCII – Toward the Second Council of Jerusalem and CPP...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 17, 2026, 12:59 AM

All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy

For 250 years, American Jews have helped shape, challenge, and reimagine the nation’s democratic ideals. All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy invites you to explore this dynamic history, where debates over freedom,...

Jul 16, 2026, 12:31 PM

Burdens Worth Bearing

The Torah describes itself as a “song.” This is rather telling about the complex structure of the Torah. A song communicates with its listener through multiple means. The words of the Torah are, in the words of the sages,...

Jul 15, 2026, 10:16 PM

Reimagining How Hebrew Reading Can Be Taught and Who Can Learn It

For decades, many Jewish educational settings operated under a quiet but devastating assumption: that children who couldn’t access Hebrew language simply couldn’t participate. The cost of that assumption has been enormous. Children who struggle to read Hebrew often disengage entirely,...

Jul 14, 2026, 11:07 AM

Never Again Requires a Plan

There is a sound every Jewish parent knows. It is not the shofar. It is not the clink of kiddush cups. It is not the sound of a child asking why this night is different from all other nights, usually...

Jul 13, 2026, 7:24 AM

What does ‘increased seminary enrollment’ really mean?

In what must be an apocryphal story, a scientist trained grasshoppers to jump on command. Then, he continued the experiment, tearing off their legs, one by one. He found that without legs the grasshoppers did not jump on command....

Jul 12, 2026, 7:02 AM

Fabulous beasts and winding streets: Prague, Kafka, and the Jewish condition

Kafka & Friends on the Charles Bridge, Prague. (Chat GPT, 25-6-2026)

The famous author inherited the city's tradition of mystery and sharpened it into stories about how the uncanny is woven into the ordinary structures of our world

Jul 11, 2026, 5:44 PM

Openness is Not the Absence of Conviction

Here's the irony. The very people defending Reform Judaism's commitment to openness sometimes seem uncomfortable when someone asks whether Reform Judaism itself still stands for anything. I think it does. In fact, I think it must. Because a movement that asks nothing of...

Jul 10, 2026, 7:50 PM

We Have the Seekers. Will We Keep Them?

Imagine you’ve decided to go on a hike for the very first time. It’s something you’ve been considering for a while, but now you’ve mustered the courage to try. You pack a bag with the things you think you’re...

Chavi Eisenberg

Jul 9, 2026, 10:22 PM

Feeling at Home in Torah

"I'm sorry if this is a stupid question..." I hear some version of that sentence almost every time I teach. Before my students can finish apologizing, I usually stop them. "There are no stupid questions." Over the years, I've realized that I don't...

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