Contentment Without Complacency
How could we navigate this tension between accepting what is and articulating what might need to change?
Rabbi Julia Appel
How to Talk About the Hard Thing: Lessons from the Seder
If the seder is a model of how to tell the story of the hard thing, what can we learn from it?
Jewish Practice: The Ultimate Touch Grass?
With such powerfully addictive technologies, both in design and due to being socialized throughout our relational networks, we need others to be with and connect with outside of technology.
Hearing Our Messengers Clearly
Sometimes, our life reveals messengers who have something important to tell us.
The Holy Outcast
Especially at this time in the Jewish calendar, our new selves are trying to get through to us, the selves we want to become this year.
The Wilderness of Addictive Technology
Sometimes it is the children who need to take us into the future, not those of us who started the journey.
The Power of Softness
Sometimes we need to work softly, like water slowly dripping, day in and day out
Disagreeing Well Is a Matter of Life or Death
Engaging with those who disagree with us is a major way we learn and grow.
Building the America I Believe In, With Chesed
It’s not every morning that my eyes well up with tears reading The New York Times. Yesterday morning, though, I … Continue Reading
The Possibility Of Change
My Passover seders have changed a lot over the years. I can think of them in different eras. The first … Continue Reading