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Danya Ruttenberg



Danya Ruttenberg is an American rabbi, speaker, scholar, and award-winning editor and writer. She is the author of numerous books on the subjects of spirituality, Judaism, parenting, and feminism, and has served as Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women.

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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice

How do we expand health care coverage to more Americans? Are hate crimes legislation and affirmative action fair? What sacrifices must we make to protect the environment? Is the death penalty morally acceptable? Contributors include Jill Jacobs, of Jewish Funds for Justice; Arthur Waskow, director...

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Wilderness as Transition: Omer, Anxiety and the Neutral Zone

There is a theory that transitions happen in three stages: ending, the neutral zone and beginning.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on the Expansion of the Definition of Whiteness in America

In each episode of “Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism” host Simran Jeet Singh speaks with an expert about a particular aspect of racism, their own experiences with it, and what wisdom they can offer us in our own lives and communities.

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Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion

At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult, she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 1990s San Francisco-drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers.

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The Question 2017 Made Us Ask

As we look back on this crazy, exhausting, absurdist play of a year, there is a question that undergirds it all. Behind the policy decisions and executive proclamations, the resistance and abuse revelations, the question has persisted: What are people for?

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Shavuot Learning: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on What's at Stake in Revelation?

Join Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg as she explores some classic Jewish texts that describe the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security

Is it morally acceptable to use surveillance and profiling to protect national security? Should war only be used in self-defense? Is torture in times of war morally acceptable? Contributors include scholar Noam Chomsky, Lt. Col. Seth Milstein, and political philosopher Michael Walzer.

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Why Do White Supremacists Hate Jews? Because We Jews Can Fight Them.

Since the dawn of modern anti-Semitism, hatred toward Jews has been deeply intertwined with the idea of Jews having unique sorts of advantages.

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How to Raise an Upstanding Child with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

What's the Jewish response to bullying? How do we raise our children to up stand up to bullies and ultimately be upstanders in the world? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg explains a concrete way that you can raise an upstander using your child's lunchbox.

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Women Should Reclaim the Term Pro-Life from Anti-Abortion Activists

It’s time to re-appropriate the term pro-life.

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