This is Part 1 of a two-part series.| rabbisandra.substack.com
My parents grew up dirt poor in the Jim Crow segregated South.| My Musings
A recording from Rabbi Sandra Lawson and Malynda Hale's live video| My Musings
This is Part 1 of a two-part series.| rabbisandra.substack.com
My Musings is a reader-supported publication.| rabbisandra.substack.com
I don’t often get the chance to preach. But today, I stood on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh as part of a Moral Monday action.| My Musings
My Musings is a reader-supported publication.| My Musings
My Musings is a reader-supported publication.| rabbisandra.substack.com
People have asked me why I wrote about Charlie Kirk's death.| My Musings
Recently, I listened to an episode of the Trevor Noah podcast featuring Tressie McMillan Cottom, and he said something that I have been marinating on for weeks.| rabbisandra.substack.com
This week we read Shoftim, and right at the center of the portion comes one of the most powerful imperatives in all of Torah: Tzedek, tzedek tirdof — “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”| My Musings
A little over twenty years ago, I went to a Black–Jewish alliance meeting chaired by a Black man and a white Jewish woman.| My Musings
It’s a spiritual wake-up call.| My Musings
If there is among you a needy person, one of your neighbors, in any of your towns within your land that your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your needy neighbor.| My Musings
That month is called Elul.| My Musings
Jubilee’s Surrounded episode with Amanda Seales made headlines for its premise: one progressive voice placed in a room with 20 young Black conservatives.| My Musings
A recording from Rabbi Sandra Lawson's live video| rabbisandra.substack.com
Tisha B'Av is a container for grief—grief that is both ancient and immediate.| rabbisandra.substack.com
Progressive Jews must stay in relationship with other progressive people and confront antisemitism when it happens.My Musings is a reader-supported publication.| My Musings
Antisemitism is a persistent hatred of the Jews that has manifested in different forms throughout history and across the political spectrum.| My Musings
I made this video to expand a little and talk about what I wrote in Losing a Generation…| My Musings
Tisha B'Av is a container for grief—grief that is both ancient and immediate.| rabbisandra.substack.com