The following offering comes to us from Dan Barash, member of the KSS Social Action Team. Dan’s words come at a perfect time — the end of the leap month Adar 1 and the beginning of Adar 2 — a time designated in our calendar for increasing joy. He reminds us that doing mitzvot, like Read More
Category: Tikkun Olam
“Just Don’t Be Mean” – A Path to Dignity
As we have for several years now, here in the Columbus Jewish community we will be honoring JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, this February. JDAIM (originally JDAM, the “I” for inclusion was added later) was started in 2008, at a gathering of the Jewish Special Education International Consortium in Minneapolis, MN. The goal Read More
Building a Shelter of Peace in the Face of Fear
On January 15th, while we were marking Tu b’Shvat with a Shabbaton focused on what Judaism has to teach us as we live into and through unsettling times, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three other people with whom he was making Shabbat were held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. After two weeks to Read More
Human Rights Shmita-Shabbat
For many years Kehillat Sukkat Shalom (formerly The Little Minyan) has joined with the organization T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in honoring the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The service is always held on the Shabbat we Read More