
Of Bicentennials and Freedom
I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town that takes great pride in being the site of the first battle of the American Revolution on ...
Joe Blumberg is a third-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Originally from Lexington, Massachusetts, Joe pursued a career as a classical musician before finding his home in the Jewish world. He has worked as an educator at Brown RISD Hillel and spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Jerusalem, where he also studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and worked with the Jerusalem African Community Center. Joe was a 2022-2023 rabbinical student fellow at Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, where he advised Jewish communities on their climate justice endeavors. He has served as a teacher and prayer leader around the country, most recently as a rabbinic intern at Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, Texas, and Beth Israel Congregation in Bath, Maine. Joe holds a B.A. in American History from Yale.
I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town that takes great pride in being the site of the first battle of the American Revolution on ...
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ Rabbinic Fellow Joe Blumberg reflects on the haftarah for Vaera and its vivid imagery of Pharaoh’s downfall, God’s justice, ...
I was at Shabbat dinner with some BJ members last week, and the conversation turned to the 20th-century anti-facist Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci is ...