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Meet Gabrielle Schwartz!
Name: Gaby Schwartz Connection to Tribe 12: I am a proud 2021 Tribe 12 Fellow Alumni! What did you stress bake during the pandemic? CUPCAKES!! Highlight of my Spotify wrapped: Apparently, I listen to A LOT of Eminem. NO SHAME. I’m not awake until I… Drink my coffee & wash my face. Restaurant I take out-of-towners…
Meet Rabbi Megan!
Name: Rabbi Megan GoldMarche My job at Tribe 12: The new Executive Director starting February 1, 2022 My pandemic silver lining was…Shabbat dinners with my family- pre-pandemic we often hosted…
Meet Elijah Tomaszewski!
Name: Elijah Tomaszewski Connection to Tribe 12: 2021 Tribe 12 Fellow and LGBTQIA+ Tribe member Favorite Mitzvah: Sippur Yetziat Mitzrayim – relating the story of Exodus during Pesach. It connects us…
Meet Rory Michelle Sullivan!
Name: Rory Michelle Sullivan Connection to Tribe 12: 2018 Fellow, Couples Tribe, 30s Tribe, general lover of Tribe 12! Did you make a pandemic friend? Yes! several! New Years resolution: Wake…
Meet Jess!
Name: Jess Harper Meyers My job at Tribe 12: LGBTQIA+ Program Director (so basically I’m ✨Professionally Gay✨) New years resolution: Cultivate more intentional community Secret superpower: I speak four languages!…
Meet Kayli!
Name: Kayli Modell My job at Tribe 12: Community Manager …But really, I’d describe my role as: Getting to know our constituents and creating experiences they are excited about, or…
To All Our Chris’s This Holiday Season
It’s a running joke for the Tribe 12 staff that every contractor we work with is named Chris. From photographers to tech support to web developers, we somehow end up…
Meet our 2022 Tribe 12 Fellows!
We are so excited to welcome these amazing members of the community to our 12th cohort! Over the course of the next few months, we cannot wait to watch them grow! Zoe (Zo) Penina Baker Issa Kabeer Forrest Piver Lizzy Ravitch Rhonda Saltzman Noah Schoenberg Sam Sittenfield Michael Spanier
LGBTQ
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The Chailights
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Women
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Tribe Commons
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Last Minute Ways to Spice up your Seder
Family rituals have a lot to do with why some of us look forward to Passover– and why some of us don’t. Horseradish-stained Haggadot, Elijah’s cup your cousin made in third…
Tribe 12 goes to The Collaboratory
This week, the Tribe 12 team is packing their bags for Atlanta to attend the annual Collaboratory conference! For this gathering, sponsored by the Shusterman Family Foundation and the Lippman Kanfer Foundation…
Masks, Flasks and Illuminati Cookies: Things You Didn’t Know about the Frattiest Jewish Holiday
Purim celebrates a time when a government tried to kill the Jewish people. And they failed! So now we eat! And drink! For those who copped a shluf during Hebrew school,…
Queen Esther, Certified Badass
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] By Lindsey Ilana Glassberg While men may dominate the narratives of many stories within the Jewish tradition, on Purim, we…
ICYMI: Your Values, Your Activism
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] ICYMI Your Values, Your Activism By Mara Swift, Social Media & Communications Intern Since November 8th, many of us have…