Clal

05/15/2026

Shabbat 250, Worth the Risk, Strangers and Neighbors, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676799

05/08/2026

The Kavod of A.I., Digital Shmitah, The Officer in the Closet, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676773

05/01/2026

Protecting People, Exceptions and Rules, Film Screening, Synagogue Privilege, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676727

04/24/2026

Interfaith America Roundtable, The Danger of Being Sure, Happy Birthday Israel, A Rabbi and a Cowboy, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676644

04/22/2026

Birthdays, at their best, are celebrations of unconditional love, and I believe in all that, especially today, on Israel’s birthday.

04/17/2026

Illuminate the Past, Your Calling at the Margins, Interfaith America, Passover Lessons Learned, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676636

04/13/2026

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield shares about Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, which begins tonight, Monday, April 13, 2026, at sundown:

"The Holocaust is a kind of Rorschach test, if one can use a German-Swiss device as the lens through which we consider this Yom Hashoah. In fact, however discredited that test may be as a diagnostic tool in psychology, it is the perfect way to challenge ourselves and invite others to examine our thoughts and feelings about the Holocaust, especially today, as people observe Yom Hashoah.

This day can be, and is, observed in many ways. It can be recognized through gathering students to watch old films—often made by the Nazis—of Jews being tormented and murdered, as it was when I was a child in a Jewish Day School. It can be honored in hearing personal accounts from the rapidly shrinking pool of survivors who can speak in the first person about the Holocaust. There are public programs featuring academics and analysts, and there is the sounding of a siren across the State of Israel, during which people cease all activity, even stopping their cars and standing silently beside them for what feels like an eternity even though it is not more than 60 seconds."

We all need more illumination, perhaps now more than ever, especially as illumination does not determine what we see or how to understand what we see.

04/10/2026

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04/01/2026

LEAP Fellows Explore New Frontiers, How to Talk About the Hard Thing, Who Will Help the Helpers, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676561

03/27/2026

The Unknown Unknowns, Spring Cleaning for the Soul, Learning from the Pain of the Narrow Places, and More - This Week at Clal - https://mailchi.mp/clal.org/eclal-5676535