Celebrate

How to mark the middle days of the eight-day festival.

The visceral cries of the enslaved Israelites, not their words, was essential to the process of liberation.

My return to sacred space.

When we look at the dark future like God wrestlers, then even in the darkest moments, we can maintain a clear and piercing vision.

Like our ancestors before us, we are called to let go of our sacred cows.

Haman’s persecution awakened in the Jews a spark of defiance, a motivation not to hide their Judaism, but to celebrate it.

Jewish tradition is replete with legends both uplifting and ominous about the vernal equinox.

The Israelite women who contributed to the tabernacle recognized the deeper gift God had given in the lengthy, exacting instructions for its construction.

The Torah commands us to remember the evil of Amalek — but also to forget.

The choice to create a second Purim speaks volumes about how our people value resilience.

National pride and unity are important, but it is ethical behavior that makes a people worthy of divine favor.

What Jewish mysticism can teach us about psychedelics.