Lili Kalish Gersch: Traditionally Jewish vs. Being Affiliated

Lili Kalish Gersch, Director of Literary, Music, and Dance Programming at Washington DC JCC, talks about how she identifies as a Jew and what Jewish affiliations mean to her.

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Sarah Rabin Spira: On Growing Up as “Not Jewish Enough” part 1

Sarah, Director, Early Childhood, Youth and Family Programs, Washington, DC JCC, talks about what it was like growing up in a mixed religious home with a Baptist mother and a Jewish (but atheist) father and not being considered Jewish “enough” for many even to this day despite a Jewish husband, lifestyle, children and job.

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Stefanie Kaplan Discusses Spirituality, G-d and Questions

Filmed in Long Beach, CA, Stefanie discusses growing more spiritual after getting married and having children and how one doesn’t need to attend synagogue to talk to G-d but that all Jews are one community. She also asks some of the basic questions: Why do bad things happen? What is G-d?

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Lili Kalish Gersch: Having Children Shows the Absence of God, Too

Lili Kalish Gersch, Director of Literary, Music, and Dance Programming at Washington DC JCC, talks about the various ways that having a child can give you the feeling of both the presence and the absence of God…and finding God in the small moments in between.

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Lili Kalish Gersch: Too Jewish & Not Jewish Enough

Lili Kalish Gersch, Director of Literary, Music, and Dance Programming at Washington DC JCC, talks about being both too Jewish and not Jewish enough depending on the environment.

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