MenschUp programs — online workshops, as well as more intimate conversations for smaller groups, or “MenschUp minyans,” led by Ophir Haberer — are designed to help men feel more comfortable being vulnerable with each other.
As of the end of June, more than 30 tons of rice, potatoes, sugar and cooking oil have been distributed to about 620 Bnei Menashe families in the states of Manipur and Mizoram.
Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, a Jewish Emergent Network rabbinic fellow at The Kitchen in San Francisco, identifies with Queen Esther.
According to Kanofsky, her workshops provide participants with an opportunity to bring a question or challenge in their lives to a tree and “open themselves to the counsel of the tree, as if the tree is a rabbi,” she said.
The vast majority of Hebrew Israelites — in the United States, Israel, and around the world — do not promote anti-Semitism or violence.
