Licking the Letters: Reclaiming Sweetness in Contemporary Jewish Education
Every night, my role as a father and Annika’s as a mother is to give Zusha the courage to sink into sleep, and the bedtime Shema prayer is our tool for this.
No Matter the Prophecies, Keep Planting
Not everything that is built is a net positive, and it takes time for us to recognize the impact of our inventions.
Prayer by Listening
Prayer is heart-work, the act of opening and softening the heart, and you already have everything you need to do that.
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.