I’m going to start by sharing something that makes me feel vulnerable: when I became a 28-year-old Executive Director at the JCC in Birmingham, Alabama — my hometown — I had no idea what I was doing. I had passion and cared deeply about the mission. But I was learning in real time how to […]

This past Sunday — just hours before Chanukah began — our world woke up to devastating news. At least 15 Jews were murdered, and many more injured, at a Chanukah celebration on a beach in Sydney, Australia. Within that same window of time came news of another mass shooting — this one at Brown University, […]