Yom Kippur
Beyond Belief: Navigating Our Way Through the High Holy Days
“Where there is faith, there are fewer beliefs. You use beliefs to shore up opinions, rather than a relationship with ...
Pineapple Coconut Coffee Cake
Like so many of my peers, Jewish summer camp played an integral role in my Jewish identity. It’s where I ...
Joy as an Answer to Death
“How do I go on?” I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...
Taking It To The Streets
Sukkot was never a big deal for me when growing up. Coming so soon after the pomp and circumstance of ...
Yom Kippur in Vicksburg and Longview
This Yom Kippur, the ISJL’s Rabbi Marshal Klaven and Rabbi Matt Dreffin will return to the communities where they spent ...
Shipwrecked with God
Communities, institutions, families and friendships create a sense of common identity, a sense of “we.” Since no two people – ...
This Yom Kippur Let’s Talk about Syria
I believe that pulpit rabbis have an obligation to frame issues of the day in a moral lens even when ...
Sinking into Compassion: The Book of Jonah and Yom Kippur
In honor of Yom Kippur, this week we bring you two queer takes on The Book of Jonah. Tomorrow, poet ...
Writing our story in the book of life #blogelul
cross-posted from Rabbi Gurevitz’ blog, ‘Raise it Up’ One of the images found in the High Holiday liturgy is ...
When The Big Game is on The Big Day
This special holiday post comes from guest blogger Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, Executive Director of Hillel at Texas A&M University. Thank ...
A New Way to Prepare for the High Holidays
I’m advocating a new angle on Heshbon Nefesh, ‘soul’s accounting’, that we do in preparation to the High Holidays of ...
