Events

Our ancestors lived their lives in sync with the environment around them. Their lives were tied to the agricultural cycles and moon phases. When the rain did not fall in its season, they prayed and fasted. We will unpack what our Jewish texts say about responding to environmental changes and how they are relevant to […]

In 1951, the US government accused Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of spying for the Soviet Union. The case reverberated around the world, damaging the relationship between the US and the USSR as well as sending shockwaves into an already traumatized Jewish community still recovering from the Holocaust. The Rosenbergs’ conviction and execution may be a […]

The IMF is perhaps the most important and least understood global economic institution in the world today. But it has lost some of its mojo since the backlash against globalization started a few years ago—a globalization that it helped encourage through its free-market policy prescriptions. How relevant is it in a more shock-prone world that […]