Suffering and the Power of Love
Remembering that I am loved by many people in the world and my suffering will subside when I connect with them is the best cure.
There is Pain Like My Pain
I hope that everyone who is part of a community comes to feel that they are not alone.
Yom Kippur 5787 – 2026 A Divided People: Then and Now
Our ancestors chose to become a people who belonged to one another.
Holding onto the Daf: Jewish Tradition as a Resource for Resilience and Faith in Challenging Times
Time and again, in extreme circumstances like these, as well as in everyday life, our ancestors held tenaciously to tradition and it helped them find their way in the dark.
Ma’alin Bakodesh – Ascending in Holiness
Teshuvah is a different GPS, God’s positioning system, helping us to calculate as we move forward.
Come Back As Yourself
Mine is not a story about a promise unkept. It is a story about what grows in the actual soil I was given, the only soil there ever was.
Where Do You Belong?
Belonging is something we keep searching for, over and over and over again, our whole lives.
“Dancing with the Stars”
These stars can’t change other people’s fear or hatred. But they can change us and root us in our own lives, unwilling to disappear.
Mitzvot, Not Memberships
But true spiritual engagement requires a transformation: a deep, shared commitment to living Jewish values and performing mitzvot together.
Parenting the Children We Have
We all have a theory of parenting—and then we have the reality of parenting the children that we actually get.