Regular updates on different social justice events and topics both in CBST and beyond, including Koleinu, our Congregation Based Community Organizing initiative, as well as our exciting work in building a Jewish LGBTQ movement.

Kavanah for Building a Movement

This morning in Minneapolis, we kicked off Practice Spirit, Do Justice--the Multifaith track at Creating Change, building the LGBTQ religious movement.

I offered the following the kavanah at the plenary session this morning and thought I would share with all of you back in New York.

Even ma'asu ha-bonim hai-ta l'rosh pinah

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This line from Psalms has become the central text at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah—the world's largest synagogue for people of every gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, emphasizing the power of moving margin to center when the builders reject the ...

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