Debra Kalmuss has been a member of BJ since 2013, and is grateful for the spiritual home and social justice anchor BJ has added to her life.
She is a sociologist who was a Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University for 34 years. Her areas of focus were sexual health and refining a model of service-based research (research designed in collaboration with service providers, program staff or policy makers with the aim of directly enhancing the quality of services, programs and/or policy). Dr. Kalmuss has trained generations of skilled public health professionals who are conducting service-based research in settings around the world. Dr. Kalmuss is from a working-class community in Brooklyn, a point of origin that has heavily influenced her life and work.
As the Hanukkah lights push back the darkness, three BJ members reflect on the quiet courage of migrant families—and the powerful light of Thursday night ...
The haftarah for Vayishlah narrates Obadiah’s prophecy of doom targeted at the Edomites, the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau.