What Are You Hoping For? A Rosh Hashanah Sermon
We’re here today because, as a people, we believe in hope.
Torah Isn’t (Just) What We Teach
Though she’s almost twelve, I still get to read to my daughter before bed a few times a week. Yes, … Continue Reading
French Fries and Forgiveness
Sometimes, in order to become something entirely new, you have to do work that happens out of sight, underneath the surface.
Elie Wiesel’s Legacy Remembered on USPS Stamp
For Wiesel, pluralism was not an abstract value but a lived necessity.
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.
Time as Awakening
Elul is the time for us to reflect on how we have acted in the past and how we want to act in the future.
Selichot: Give Up on Spiritual Formulas and Let God Give You a Bath
We must become active participants in our own Teshuvah, working to repair relationships with those we have harmed and committing to live differently in the future.
Feel the Spirit
Invisible, powerful, essential to life, close as our breath within, and vast as the heavens above: the Air can be … Continue Reading