Rediscovering My Grandmother’s Blintz Recipe and Old Memories of My Family While helping my mom clean her home, I found a printout of an email…
The Worldwide Chavurah
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…
Dear Erich: An Exciting Addition to the Jazz Opera Repertory Jazz pianist and composer Ted Rosenthal conceived Dear Erich from 200 letters, written mostly by…
What Happens When a Holocaust Documentary Meets a Wartime Thriller The Invisibles tells the true story of four Holocaust survivors, two men and two women,…
How to Honor a Parent Who Can No Longer Remember Your Birthday Judaism places great importance on memory. But where do our obligations to remember…
We Need to End the Government Shutdown We sent a letter to Congress urging them to immediately pass legislation to fully fund the government and end the…
The Issue Remains: Two States for Two Peoples In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michelle Alexander simplified the endlessly complicated Israeli Palestinian conflict –…
If You Want to Know What It Means to Be a Reform Jew Today, Look No Further A new adult education curriculum helps us explore…
On Global Jewish Responsibility: Putting the Olam in Tikkun Olam God created human beings to partner with God to shape a world of justice and…
My Relationship with My Tallit and Tefillin Yes, I wear a prayer shawl and phylacteries when I pray but it has taken me years to…
Fulfilling Marc Chagall’s Vision of Hope and Peace I recently explored some sites in Jerusalem, including the Knesset (parliament) building. A friend works there, and…
Our Spiritual Fate Depends on Progress Toward Racial Justice This essay about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. written a year after the civil rights leader…
To March or Not to March? That Is Not the Only Question The upcoming Women’s March has prompted challenging and heartfelt conversations and raised myriad…
Wildfire Recovery: A Tu BiShvat Tale When a wildfire leveled my home when I was 20, I fell into a deep depression. Later, when I…
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.…
3 Radical Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. and How to Honor His Full Legacy On MLK Jr. Day, we often see a sanitized, nonconfrontational…
The Most Troubling Verse in the Bible Coming so abruptly at the end of one of Scripture’s most poignant passages, the wish detailed in Psalm…
On Being a Moral Leader in Uncertain Times As we head into the first month of the secular new year, I’ll be inviting my congregation…
Planting “Trees” to Fulfill the Dream of Israel’s Founders Tu BiShvat (Jewish Arbor Day) is the time of year when Israeli schoolchildren plant trees. Perhaps…
The Small Miracle I Found in a Tel Aviv Café Accompanying student groups to the Kotel repeatedly reminds me that Israel is a place like…