community
My Children Won’t be Jews Like Me
I’ve done everything “right”: given my children Jewish education, sent them to Jewish camps, spent time with them in Israel ...
Seeking Shelter From The Cold
Much of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. is ensconced in a ferocious cold spell today and tomorrow. Known as the ...
Southern & Conservative
I spend a lot of time with Conservatives in the South. Conservative Jews, in this case (probably not what most ...
Why Ursula LeGuin Would Support Swarthmore’s Open Hillel
For other perspectives on this debate, read Rabbi Ben Greenberg’s post here and Rabbi Tsafi Lev’s post here.In her series about ...
Pursuing your dreams?
About a year ago, someone recommended a Paulo Coelho book to me—a popular one— The Alchemist . Most people I ...
Shaving Heads, Sharing Hope
Along with the rest of the world, particularly, the interconnected collective family known as “the Jewish community,” our hearts broke ...
Friends with Benefits
What do you do when you have a mission to promote Southern Jewish history, but you have no physical place ...
Connect, and They Will Come
This past Shabbat I hosted the last in the three-part set of gatherings that had been planned, designed and implemented ...
Uncle Sam(uel) Needs YOU!
In addition to being the Director of Rabbinic Services at the ISJL, I’m a proud member of the Jewish Welfare ...
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...