Shortly after graduating college, I joined a cohort of like-minded, passionate new graduates to be emissaries and implementers of what was, at the time, a radical idea in Jewish life: getting outside of our buildings to create deeply connected relationships with those on the periphery of the Jewish community.
As I muse over my experiences at the AIPAC 2016 Policy Conference, the thought occurs to me that one’s first AIPAC is something like a first visit to a mikvah – a totally immersive Jewish experience.
When I marked my calendar for the 2016 AIPAC Policy Conference, I didn’t expect that the agenda would include a text study on leadership and human dignity in the hallway of the Verizon Center.
The AIPAC conference opened few days ego is one of the most important conventions of the Jewish communities in the US.
Ashkenazic Conservative Jews living in North America will, for the first time, be able to consume beans, rice and other previously prohibited foods known as kitniyot during Passover guilt-free. Or so they’ve been told by the movement’s law committee, which gave the green-light to these foods last December.
To My Daughters: We didn’t mean to lie to you — it just happened.
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