Listen to Pentatonix and you’ll think you hear instruments.
As Jews prayed over the destruction of the Temple, here was a Tisha B’Av service unlike any other: Neshama Carlebach and Basya Schechter singing of hope and mourning.
Amid all the Facebook posts about the heart-rending violence taking place at this moment in Israel and Gaza, this photo of a bomb shelter door in Ashdod leapt out. It says that the bomb shelter is only for men and boys.
Journalist Haviv Rettig Gur recently noted in ejewishphilanthropy.com that just two of the 19 largest Jewish federations in North America are headed by women.
Women are running a growing number of Jewish organizations, at least those represented in the Slingshot guide to innovative groups.