Why Pray to a Silent God? Why pray to a silent God who is not looking down at us and waiting to hear what we…
Posts published in “Chavurah”
How I’m Tapping into My Jewish Values to Help Save Lives When 17 people were killed in a shooting at our school, we were devastated…
Tips for Hosting for the High Holidays Whether hosting a holiday meal causes stress or you revel in creating warmth and hospitality around Jewish traditions.…
How Can We Find Hope and Faith in the Face of Death? Rabbi Stephen Karol’s new book is based on his many years of helping…
What Did They See When They Entered the Orchard? At my seder, as at many, we go around the table, taking turns reading successive pieces…
What I Learned from My “Lost Passover” Two years ago, for the first time ever, I didn’t attend a seder. A virulent infection was poisoning…
Letting Go at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Lessons from a Zen Peacemaker Retreat As the son of Holocaust survivors, I ruled out the possibility of ever visiting a concentration…
Shavuot: Counting Up to the Celebration Just as the light grows with each night of Hanukkah, so too do our joy and excitement grow as…
This Pride Month, We’ve Still Got a Long Way to Go to End LGBTQ Poverty This Pride Month, we remain committed to raising awareness about…
The Struggle for Women’s Equality in Israel Continues In Israel, “separate but equal” is used to justify limiting women’s access to, and participation in, the…
How One Israeli Organization is Fighting a 5-Year-Old Boy’s Deportation His world was turned upside down after his parents divorced. His father left Israel – and…
How to Declutter Your Soul During the High Holidays The Days of Awe offer us opportunities to consider how we spend our days and what…
How You Can Participate in National Refugee Shabbat – and Why You Should Jewish communities across North America will come together for National Refugee Shabbat on October…
Cracking the Code: What Torah Trope Are You? Chants used to read Torah may be an unusual metaphor to assess one’s inner nature, but the…
How #GivingTuesday Helps Us Fulfill a Jewish Obligation #GivingTuesday provides us with an opportunity to demonstrate one of the most fundamental teachings of Jewish tradition:…
Thanks, but I’ll Pass on the Santa Stamps In earlier days, I might have avoided any fuss and simply hurried out – but on that…
ReformJudaism.org’s Top 10 Stories of 2018 As we prepare to ring in 2019, we look back on the year we leave behind, and… whew, what…
How We’re “Rooting” Reform Judaism in the Sands of Holon Miraculously, a delicate network of threads is emerging amongst us, linking us heart to heart.…
How Growing Up Jewish in the Bible Belt Helped Me Find my Faith I want to be open about my faith so that others may…
The Torah of the ADA: A Reflection I am a lawyer. I graduated Harvard law school and have practiced law for major corporations and large…