Dvora Meyers
Dvora Meyers is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Tablet and several other publications. She is the author of the essay collection Heresy on the High Beam: Confessions of an Unbalanced Jewess and blogs at Unorthodox Gymnastics. You can find Dvora on Twitter here.
An essay by Teach For American member, Eli Klein. via Repair The World
Sometimes short term works better in the long run, a study says. via Repair The World
There are lots of good Jewish businesspeople out there. Vote for the best one.
Courtney Martin, author of “Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists,” discovered her place in the world of social change, and wants to help other people do it.
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Take the major symbols of the holiday and add them to your everyday life.
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Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season. It is also one of the most popular days of the year to serve in the country’s soup kitchens and food pantries.
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Tag, the quintessential children’s playground game, might have been banned in many schools around the country out of fear of injuries, but it’s coming back in vogue, at least virtually. The HandsOn Network has introduced a new way to play Tag online, intending to accrue volunteers to a whole host of projects and causes …as opposed to lawsuits.
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A conversation with Elie Lowenfed, the 23-year-old founder of the Jewish Disaster Response Corps (JDRC), which he started while still an undergraduate at New York University
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