Wandering Through the Desert: Sifting Through Our Past on Our Way To Revelation
How do we, in this generation, understand sin? And what do we believe are the best ways to deal with our sin?
Serving God in Our Day
My earliest concepts of God, gleaned from my religious training, were of a power distant and removed at best and vindictive and frightening at worst.
The Megaphone of Money in American Politics
In a society where one’s value or influence is often determined by the amount of money one gives, voices get lost.
A Woman is Acquired
“A woman is acquired [in marriage] in three ways…by money, by document, or by intercourse.” This is how the first mishnah in the tractate Kiddushin begins.
The Challenge of Becoming Israel
Seven weeks after the fall holidays have ended this week’s Torah reading, Vayishlach, offers us a path back into the work of teshuva.
From Prejudice to Pluralism: Surfacing the Unconscious
“How do we measure effectiveness in interfaith work? How do we track progress? What outcomes are we after, and how do we know we are reaching them?”
Becoming Our True Selves: A Rosh HaShannah Reflection
How do we spiritually prepare for the High Holidays during the busiest time of the year?
To Till and to Tend
In Genesis we read that God places Adam in the garden “to serve it and to guard it.” Why was this humanity’s original purpose in the Garden of Eden and what can we learn from this as we approach the Jewish High Holy Days?
The World to Come
Shabbat is not only the way we as Jews sustain ourselves, it is how anyone dissatisfied with the world as it is visions and creates the world as they imagine it should be. In the fallout from the tragic Sikh Temple shooting
God Questions
Though it seems as if God should be a part of our relationships, how we act in the world, and, hopefully, how we worship, for many of us the realization dawns on us that we have no idea what God is.