Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)Why It Doesn’t Really Matter What You Wear to TempleThe Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching, and, like me, you might be staring at your pre-teen’s closet…·5 min read·Sep 11, 2023--10--10
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)The Keeping of Boundaries:A Ceremony for Separation·8 min read·Apr 10, 2023--1--1
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…·6 min read·Apr 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.·5 min read·Mar 10, 2023--1--1
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.”·8 min read·Jun 20, 2022--33--33
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 City·14 min read·Feb 7, 2022--3--3
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.·6 min read·Nov 16, 2021--1--1
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)inPerceive More!The Queer Freedom of PassoverPassover is my favorite holiday. It’s my favorite because it transmits a message of radical empathy intellectually, emotionally…·4 min read·Mar 21, 2021----
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)I’m having an Eeyore day: Parenting with Depression“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.·6 min read·Mar 3, 2021----
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)They’re Gonna Try to Kill Us Again; Let’s Be Joyful AnywayWhat’s this next Jewish holiday about? It’s what they’re all about: They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.·3 min read·Feb 5, 2021----