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Noa Kushner



Noa Kushner is an American rabbi, spiritual and community leader, and writer. She is the founder of the Kitchen, a San Francisco religious community focused on creating a fresh approach to Jewish experience and practice in all aspects of life. Her essays appear in theological studies as well as popular media.

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The Kitchen: A New Take on Jewish Practice

The idea to create something that filled a gap, that met needs that weren’t being met.

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Emma Silvers
2011
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Rabbi Noa Kushner Speaking at S.F. City Hall Anti-Hate Rally

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Noa Kushner
2017
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Old Roots, New Branches: Jewish Spiritual Communities and the Rise of Alt-Labor

A growing number of independent, unaffiliated Jewish spiritual communities are sprouting against a backdrop of declining membership in the Conservative and Reform Jewish movements.

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Amy Dean
2013
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Noa Kushner: Working Hard as a Young Woman Rabbi

Rabbi Noa Kushner discusses the difficulty of being a young woman rabbi in a male-dominated environment.

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Noa Kushner
2020
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Who by Fire, Who by Water: Un’taneh Tokef

An anthology of essays that trace the history of Un’taneh Tokef, examining its theology, authorship, and poetry, and its call for sanctity, transformation, and renewal.

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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (editor)
2013
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Yossi Klein Halevi & Rabbi Noa Kushner: Nationhood, Peoplehood, & Belonging

At the JFN 2019 International Conference in San Francisco, Yossi Klein Halevi, a leading Israeli writer and analyst, and co-director of Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative, discussed the need of the Jewish people to find in its national movement a “third way” between the...

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Noa Kushner
2019
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All These Vows―Kol Nidre

An anthology of commentaries that explore the history of Kol Nidre, the declaration recited at the outset of Yom Kippur, and examine its theology, usage, and deeply personal impact.

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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (editor)
2011
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Jersey City

There are surely prescriptions now for advancing the fight against guns as well as thoughtful movements against anti-semitism, and we will join and act and donate. That whether or not we act is no longer an option, not any longer.

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Rabbi Noa Kushner
2019
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Noa Kushner: It Is Possible to Build Something in the World

Rabbi Noa Kushner examines how her founding The Kitchen has taught her daughters an important lesson about the ability to make an impact in this world.

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Noa Kushner
2020
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We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism―Ashamnu and Al Chet

The essays in this anthology focus on the history of confession in Judaism, its roots in the Bible, its evolution in rabbinic and modern thought, and the very nature of confession for men and women today.

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Lawrence A. Hoffman (editor)
2012
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