Parenting teens when we don’t have the answers: Good, bad, and very bad ideas from Talmud
As we parent teens, we might not have helpful answers, or any answers at all, but we need to show up for their passionate questions.
The Garments We Run Down the Aisle In
I am still descending. Most days I think I’m just now learning where the steps are.
Lone Wolves Need Packs: They Will Find Hate Groups or Healthy Communities
A wolf without a pack is a wolf with a grim future.
Shabbat 250: What John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison Can Teach Us
What it does do is afford a wonderful opportunity to reflect on an old debate about the place of religion in American political life—one that goes back to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
Worth the Risk
I wanted to build my capacity to practice pluralism—to go beyond just thinking I “loved my neighbor like myself.”
Strangers, Neighbors, and Friends
Our greatest challenge may not be disagreement itself, but our diminishing capacity to remain in relationship across it.
A Shmitah from Digital Overload
How many times do we exile ourselves from the real world around us when we decide to engage in the fabricated worlds created by our phones?
A.I.: The God We Want, but Not the God We Need
How do we move past the comfort of a false god and to strive for connection with true Divine presence?
A Teacher’s Work
It’s the kind of grace you notice more as you get older, and wish you practiced more often yourself.