Rabbi Jason Nevarez serves Temple Shaaray Tefila in Northern Westchester, N.Y. He was in the inaugural cohort of UJA’s Rabbinic Fellowship for Visionary Leaders, proudly leads the Northern Westchester Interfaith Council, and was recently named one of Bedford’s 25: Most Creative, Most Dedicated, Most Influential.
Jason Nevarez
By Jason Nevarez
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Community A Letter to Our Children on Election Night
Before you were born, the excitement of pending parenthood and preparation for infancy were the focus – writing birth plans and researching bottles. We were dedicated to creating a home steeped in our [Jewish] values, but didn’t yet know what that would look like beyond Shabbat dinners and Shema at bedtime. We rejoiced when we…
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As Jews around the world celebrate the restarting of the Torah, among them is probably the world’s newest, and unlikeliest, group of Jews. The Abayudaya are converts twice over – once converted to Christianity by British missionaries in the late 1800s and again to Judaism in the early 1900s when their leader, inspired by the…
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