Your Final Itinerary is Confirmed
Planning a vacation when your parent is dying presents a host of challenges I hadn’t anticipated.
Two Ways of Greatness – What Jalen Brunson and Elon Musk Reveal About America’s Competing Visions of Human Excellence
What Brunson and Musk actually represent are two genuinely different theories of how greatness is constituted.
Quarreling Ourselves to Death
There’s no doubt that our ability to have sustained dialogue, especially constructive arguments, has severely declined.
Two Stories of Estrangement
What would ritual look like for people who, for whatever reason, become estranged from a family member?
Beyond Burned Bread: Connecting Creativity to the Divine
Perhaps the rabbis have kept the requirement to take challah (chafrashat challah) so that we would remember that human creative endeavors also have their source in divine good will.
MudGirl Run: A story of Arevut (Leaning in) and Chesed (kindness) as Survival Strategies
I watched my child delight in her own strength and power as she realized she could care for those around her.
Mother as Goddess, Father as Human: The Divide of Parenthood
Sleep allows the prayers to enter the body, without understanding, without conscious awareness.
Finding Friends-in-Faith
My heart fills with hope, a hope that I’d find a path back to who I was, or a path forward to who I was becoming.
Cowlicks and Banners of Love
What does it look like to call something beloved when everything feels broken?