It is intolerable that Israeli Judaism must constantly grapple with the agonizing weight of physical force while liberal American Judaism remains comfortably disengaged.
The feeling of being in a space devoted to care, not by Jews for Jews but by allies for Jews, was almost breathtaking.
His podcast offers listeners access to a great map room, one that contains the intellectual and spiritual maps others have used as they charted their own courses to happiness and the good life.
What Moses comes to teach us, then, in his final and most powerful sermon, is that there is no use in looking backward if we don’t use it to drive us forward.
It was a spiritual experience, to dance with abandon, no choreography except what came from each heart, each body, unique and expressive, improvisational at its core.
I’ve shifted my understanding to see grace as the power planted within us to stop and sense the wow.
Imagine if we all simply agreed to start any conversation about America or American Jewish life with an articulation of the things about which we are grateful.
Each memory clicked into color like a film cell, telling a story of who my father was.
