Rabbis Without Borders
Hillel, Comma, Open, and Beit Shammai
Once again HIllel has found itself in the news due to several recent events: Eric Fingerhut’s refusal to speak at ...
Can The Jewish People Find Common Ground?
Can the Jewish people find common ground? Is there enough that brings together all the varied different ways of being ...
Closing the Gap
I’d like to share with you all the holiday message I have written to the members of Or Shalom Synagogue, ...
Do We Need Lent in Judaism?
There are two funny images I like to circulate this time every year as we approach the Passover holiday. The ...
All About Those Plagues – A Passover Parody
This is the second year that my congregation, B’nai Shalom in Westborough MA, has produced a Passover Parody video – ...
Gasping For Air In Israeli Discourse
I love the ocean. Whether surfing or just playing in the waves, as a native Californian, I feel at home ...
Horseradish Harvest: A Passover Gathering
Yesterday at Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we harvested horseradish from our synagogue garden. We are an ...
Who Speaks for the Jews?
I have sung the song “David Melech Yisrael” thousands of times. It’s easy to learn and fun to sing with ...
No Time to Lose
The day after the day after the Israeli elections the words of the quintessential Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai come to ...
The Freedom of Now
When does time begin? What does time measure? What came before the beginning? Such mind-bending questions evoke timeless truths especially ...
Israeli Elections: True Confessions of a 21st Century Israeli-American
You say you care about the Israeli election? Me too, but how much do you know? How many political parties ...
A Hundred Thousand Miracles
I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...