We the people
Are more diverse than ever imagined.
Immigrants and native-born,
Empowered and impoverished,
Welcomed and abandoned.
We the people
Are Beauty - the brave, the broken,
The tired, the poor, and the golden door.
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Rabbi Ben Spratt
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Senior Rabbi of , Coauthor of "Awakenings" and series, Passionate Pluralist and Community Builder
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“Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them…An integral part of a human’s education is to know those duties and how to perform them.” Robin Wall Kimmerer
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The biggest thanks to the finest of individuals: for evangelizing and believing in LUCI, for his heartfelt words, and for adding V. Map to Wander to the collection🙏
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I am going to go celebrate. It has been a very good week.
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The only true voyage...would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another...to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists - Marcel Proust
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My interview with of about my book ‘We Need To Build’ and what constructive social change looks like.
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Rabbis and Ben Spratt are on the right track in their book #Awakenings: First time a survey says Jewish future brighter than its past, even with institutions on the decline. bit.ly/3OhAYJG
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Synagogues closing, rising intermarriage, deepening denominational and political rifts: That's one way to tell the story of today's American Jewish Diaspora. But there's another thrilling tale we should be telling Opinion
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A letter to my sons (an excerpt from ‘We Need To Build’), on the kind of social change agents I hope that they will be:
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I write about my new favorite word — “fictionalism” — which describes Jews who do the ritual stuff without really believing in God. jta.org/2022/06/19/opi via
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Who's a Jew? During #JewishHeritageMonth Rabbis and Ben Spratt confront the authenticity trap facing many marginalized members of the tribe: It’s not about possessing our heritage, it’s about learning and practicing Judaism. #Awakenings
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