PinnedRabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)inHuman PartsI Chose to Be Jewish. I Didn’t Choose Netanyahu.Photo by Robert Bye on UnsplashMay 1418May 1418
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Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)The Keeping of Boundaries:A Ceremony for SeparationApr 10, 20231Apr 10, 20231
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)Liberation & Violence: Passover’s Queer Lesson of EmpathyPassover tells the story of the Jewish people’s enslavement in Egypt and liberation into the wildnerness. Often told as a tale of miracles…Apr 4, 2023Apr 4, 2023
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)A Jewish Obligation to Protect Gender DiversityI’ve always been impatient about inequality. I was a stamps-her-feet, doesn’t-sit-down, never-shuts-up kind of little girl.Mar 10, 20232Mar 10, 20232
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)Pride is not a rainbow. It’s a riot.Last weekend, our family of four attended Montclair, New Jersey’s first ever Pride Festival, the theme of which was: “Be You. Be Heard.”Jun 20, 202233Jun 20, 202233
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)I’m a “Woman Rabbi”: Bringing Our Full Selves to Jewish CommunitySermon for Shabbat Terumah, February 2022, at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York CityFeb 7, 20223Feb 7, 20223
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)Asking for Too Little: Taylor Swift’s All Too Well Better Wake Us All Up to Normalized, Sexist…Sacred prayer I was there I remember it all too well.Nov 16, 20211Nov 16, 20211
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)The Queer Freedom of PassoverPassover is my favorite holiday. It’s my favorite because it transmits a message of radical empathy intellectually, emotionally…Mar 21, 2021Mar 21, 2021
