I am so grateful for the relationships fostered by this community that has taught me that a shul does not stop at the sanctuary walls ...
Rabbinic Fellow (2018-2020)
Margo Hughes-Robinson
Biography
Margo Hughes-Robinson is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. A New Yorker by birth, she grew up in communities all over the United States before attending Clark University, where she graduated in 2015 with degrees in Theatre and Jewish Studies. Margo is also a proud alumna of the Conservative Yeshiva Lishma Fellowship and the Hartman Rabbinic Student Seminar. During her time in rabbinical school, she has enjoyed professional endeavors with T’ruah, Kulanu, Inc., Fort Tryon Jewish Center in New York City, Adat Israel in Guatemala City, and as an Interfaith Educator at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. When she is not learning and teaching, Margo still occasionally appears onstage—most recently in Providence, RI, and in Jerusalem.
Articles Written by
Margo Hughes-Robinson
Taste of Torah: Naso
What new depth may we derive from the priestly blessing, in a moment when exile feels all too acute?
Two Observant Jews, a Catholic Mom & Some Secular Siblings Walk Into a Quarantine
...since the COVID-19 virus has disrupted almost every aspect of daily life, I’ve been isolating with my interfaith family—my observant Jewish spouse, Catholic mom, and ...
Taste of Torah: Emor
After a long list of commandments, the very end of Parashat Emor brings us a startling narrative.
Taste of Torah: Hol Hamo’ed Pesah
On Shabbat Hol Hamo’ed Pesah, we return to a narrative that we encountered only a few weeks before—that of Moses seeking God’s face.
Taste of Torah: Ki Tissa
We are reminded that if we find ourselves in a period of spiritual loneliness (or even if God seems fully absent from the text of ...
Taste of Torah: Yitro
Our foundational document, our Torah, is a living text. Like Jefferson’s vision of the Constitution, we must in every generation engage in its ongoing interpretation ...
Taste of Torah: Shemot
The book of Exodus opens with a scene that is at once terrifying and today, chillingly familiar. A foreign population—the children of Israel—have dwelled in ...
Omer Kavannot 5779: Darkeinu — Margo Hughes-Robinson
When I began seriously reading about Judaism in my early teens, I never felt like I was reading about a foreign group. Instead, the entire ...