Marketing, mysticism, and other brain drippings.
Whether you lead, support, or are simply invested in the flourishing of a Jewish nonprofit, you have the opportunity to make an impact next Tuesday, December 3, raising funds in an exciting, social, and substantial way. #GivingTuesday is a movement developed in the wake of the commercial holidays following Thanksgiving: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, …
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This week I had the privilege of leading a "clinic" for UpStart's cohort of bold entrepreneurs at a three-day lab in the Bay Area, CA. Together we explored audience-centered marketing and how to tell your brand story consistently and effectively while recruiting for everyday campaigns. I am immensely grateful to UpStart for allowing me this …
This July, UpStart hosted our staff retreat at The Hive in San Diego. I was able to take the clips of video I'd captured throughout the four-day event and turn them into something slightly cohesive for our team to enjoy as they returned home. Check out the recap of our Team Retreat 2019.
Apparently, Ralph Waldo Emerson fantasized about the merits of a pentagonal relationship with four of his closest friends as the ideal Platonic form of intimacy. Among his selected poly-platonic partners would be revolutionary Margaret Fuller, astronomer Caroline Herschel, poet and transcendentalist Samuel Ward, and his wife, Anna Baker Ward, with whom Margaret Fuller and Emerson …
Each Coming Night (click to listen) Iron & Wine's meditation on death and remembrance. Will you say when I'm gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now" Will you say to them when I'm gone "I loved your son for his sturdy arms We both learned to cradle …
when the surface is unsettled, peaking and swaying, one curve to another my image fails to exist glimpses of my skin are found in pale color, and across many distant angles but left to calm itself slowing its dance from side to side the fragments rearrange themselves to form a more focused gaze and there …
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Some may know that I am on the Brand Strategy team for a national nonprofit organization. Part of my role has been supporting the progress of our organizational rebrand after a successful merger. I'll save the details for when/if they're relevant, but part of the rebrand process has been a deep exploration of brand activation …
Our parsha this week is Va’etchanan, a somewhat popular Torah portion, as it is the portion which houses our Shema and V’ahavta prayers. The Shema, as we know, is a call to oneness, a call to love, and it stands as a centerpiece of this parsha. Most of the parsha, however, is a retelling by …
Continue reading D’var Torah for an Aufruf: a Meditation on Va’etchanan
I don't need to tell anyone how difficult this last year has been. Whatever side of the political spectrum you're on, you've likely seen firsthand the destructive effects of our state of affairs and the polarizing rhetoric on replay wherever you go. The sheer amount of information vying for our attention, the chorus of personalities …
Continue reading Why I’m no longer talking about politics on Facebook
