Hannah Ehlers

Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish’ State Is an Affront to Judaism

By Hannah Ehlers March 26, 2015

It is no great surprise that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was reelected last week. He is a skillful politician and an astute campaigner. What did surprise some, however, including many American Jews and American Jewish communal institutions, were the various statements Netanyahu made during the last days and hours of his campaign. The day…

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Wrestling with Faith and God – 6 Poems

By Hannah Ehlers January 15, 2015

  Full there is a deep breath resonating through the walls and I am coming closer to catching it   not concerned with lasting concerned with now   not before but because of   arriving not leaving   made-up not fantasy   there is a deep breath resonating through these paper walls not calm but…

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The Reform Movement Must Apply its Values to Israel

By Hannah Ehlers July 31, 2014

Early in my Jewish education, I was taught that, as Jews and as human beings living in an imperfect world, we are obligated to stand up and speak out in the face of injustice. However small or large the perceived wrong, and despite our shaking legs and cracking voices or how powerful and vocal the…

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