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…
The Worldwide Chavurah
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…
The Power of New Beginnings: Parashat Bo and Human Trafficking Awareness More people are enslaved today than at any other point in history – more than 40…
The Traditions I’m Not Passing on to My Students As the synagogue’s lockdown drill began, I bolted the door, lowered the blinds, and took a…
How I Try to Make My Words and Meditations Acceptable to God Psalm 19:14, “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my…
How We Can Deepen Social Justice in the Jewish Community and Beyond We caught up with some of the contributors of the new anthology Moral Resistance…
Remembering Amos Oz, Israel’s Rock Star of Tolerance Amos Oz was a world-renowned Israeli writer, whose work expresses the complexity, the tragedy, and the wonder…
What Is the Price of Human Dignity? Jewish tradition includes many teachings related to issues faced by farm workers and thus, these issues should concern…
My Journey to Judaism and to Jewish Art As a gay kid growing up in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood of Boston, I felt alienated and…