Prayer

The majesty and transcendence of the High Holidays are behind us. Rosh Hashanah with its coronation of God and Yom ...

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

I think about the nature and concept of forgiveness literally on a daily basis. As a lawyer, my practice consists ...

A while back I suggested a unique way of doing the chesbon nefesh (soul’s accounting) we are expected to do ...

The images of the secular New Year—Times Square, Champagne in fancy glasses, funny hats and noisemakers—are all fun and happy. ...

I pray every day. Most days the early morning cerebral fog is pretty dense and my anxiety about being late ...

Change is difficult. It can only happen when we reflect on the present and imagine different possibilities for going forward. ...

For those not immersed in the British television phenomenon that is Doctor Who, TARDIS (an acronym for Time and Relative ...

Growing up in a very Reform household, I was never completely comfortable at the prospect of being called to the ...

There’s a reason you haven’t seen me online much this summer. I went underground to avoid the graphic images of ...