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Our hearts are heavy.This past Thursday evening marked the onset of Tu B’Av, the traditional Jewish holiday celebrating love. Yet ...

An important aspect of spiritual leadership is ministering to people in times of stress and pain as chaplains do. Below ...

I have no idea how many b’nai mitzvah, baby namings, brises, et al I have officiated at. Nor how many ...

My mother’s birthday coincided with Shavuot this year. She would have been 76 years old, had she not died in ...

Bamidbar is my daughter Elena’s bat mitzvah portion. As she was approaching bat mitzvah, fifteen years ago, my father was ...

On a single day last week, we were stunned by news of the Charlie Helbo attack in Paris and a bomb ...

We are honored to share a poem from I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman.Lesléa Newman, known for her children’s book Heather Has Two ...

I ended 2014 by making the trip from California to New Jersey to visit my father’s grave. I stood on ...

Birth and death are expected aspects of a congregational community’s life. The past few days, however, have weighed heavily on ...

Today will be a difficult day for my family. And for me. We should be celebrating the first birthday of ...

I was hip for a week. For one week, I had a stripe of purple hair mixed in with my ...