Eliana Falk
Rabbi Eliana Falk feels blessed to serve at Beth El Synagogue in Woodbury, Conn. She was ordained through the Academy for Jewish Religion, and is committed to Jewish pluralism in all of its wonderful and challenging glory. In her congregation and her work as a chaplain, she works to open doors to the joys of Jewish life, and deeper understanding of the richness of our heritage, through experiential learning in a joyful community that reaches beyond the walls of the synagogue. She has twice been awarded the Herschel J Matt Creative Liturgy Award. She is committed to the evolution of Jewish life, environmental responsibility, and building interfaith ties.
Articles by Eliana Falk
Inspiration
When we open our eyes in the morning, when we are confronted with challenges, when we seek to create beauty, ...
I’m Not Angry, Damn It!
It is totally human to feel righteous indignation and even justified anger. And unless we were born as saints of ...
Just Curious…
I can recall, apparently with terrific inaccuracy, hearing a kindergarten story about an incorrigible feline who poked his nose into ...
Turn the Prism One More Time
To be honest, I really struggle in these months before an election. The tsunami of political rhetoric in and of ...
Can I Hear You Now?
“When the reception goes down, the volume goes up.” These were the sage words of one of my honored teachers ...
Drawn to the Light
One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...
Accumulating Things Or, Then Again … Nothing
We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
As an irrepressible, even relentless, optimist, I hold great hope for Jewish life in America. I wonder if that is because ...
What Are You Doing Tomorrow?
As a rabbi who is blessed with the humbling privilege of leading her congregation, after the High Holy Days have ...
Writing the Next Episode of Your Life
Do you ever watch British TV? I am a fan, a huge fan, especially of the stories that disclose, in episodes ...