When we first asked Rabbi Gendler to write a blog-post for the Gendler Grapevine website, we had a few hurdles to jump – the first being to explain what a blog is! I hope you’ll enjoy the reflection below as much as I did. -Emily Loeb Executive Director The Gendler Grapevine Project Dear Board [...]
We were excited to be able to give the 2013 Gendler Grapevine Projects an extra gift this year. In addition to funding 10 unique projects all over the country, we designed and distributed 5000 water bottles to the campers and camp staff at the Gendler Grapevine Project sites. Campers at URJ Camp Coleman show [...]
42 years ago I was asked to contribute an essay to a cutting-edge volume called The New Jews. The book was a collection of essays by various people early involved in what we’ve later come to call the Jewish renewal movement. I decided to write about the Judaism of nature, a reversal of the frequently [...]
