Tamara Miller
Rabbi Tamara Miller is a graduate of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York City. She is currently the Spiritual Director at the Center for Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. A CLAL Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, Rabbi Miller also has an independent practice as a Judaics teacher, spiritual counselor and life ritualist.
Articles by Tamara Miller
What if God is Praying for You?
“Just call me on my cell. My house can be difficult to find.”I hobbled through the alleyways of the thick, ...
Women’s Voices: The Path to Religious Freedom
Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...
Reciprocal Receiving on Rosh Chodesh
The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760.I was studying at the Conservative ...
Hebrew By Design
Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...
Love Story: The Making of a Jewish Wedding
I prepared the bimah with two kiddush cups, a bottle of kosher wine and a glass wrapped in a white ...
Kaddish by Heart
The eldest son was chosen by his father to recite the Kaddish in his memory.Standing at the gravesite where his ...
Funky Kippot in the Diaspora
There is no conformity for liberal Jewish women in the synagogue when it comes to wearing a head covering. Look ...
An Unorthodox Shiva Minyan
The important thing is not how many separate injunctions are obeyed but how and in what spirit we obey them. ...
My Big Black Hat Family Wedding
In the past six months, I have attended three “black hat” weddings for my two grandnieces and one grandnephew. My ...
A Presidential Ritual
Last Monday evening a light rain fell on the Capitol City where I live on 16th Street, a mile up ...