Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 17:59
I was honored to speak at a press conference on May 15 organized by the Shalom Bayit campaign of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Domestic Workers United, to highlight the continuing need for New York employers to adhere to the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 17:45
These words from Franz Wright's "Dead Seagull" look like a prayer to me on this Friday morning heading toward Shabbat and just about 3 weeks in to the omer's journey toward Sinai:
Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:26
We just finished the week of reading the parsha Shemini, which includes the amazing, puzzling story of Aaron's sons Nadav and Abihu, who died when they offered "strange fire." What follows is a midrash I wrote about them at the end of a week of study with Melila Hellner (http://www.hartman.org.il/Faculty_View.asp?faculty_id=35&Cat_Id=333&Cat_...).
