Finding The Words
03/09/2024 09:40:08 PM
Finding The Words
This is a moment when finding the words is hard. Which word first, which heart chamber is pumping what emotion, and in what mode.
This is a moment both unprecedented and in continuity with the epic, existential, ongoing battle in the state of...Read more...
WHAT IS POSSIBLE
20/08/2024 09:00:08 PM
These things are possible.
One. It is possible to sustain a synagogue community where every member has a home, and no one is subject to a “tzitzis check.” Translation: no one’s beliefs or non-beliefs are examined to see whether or not they are kosher!
There are plenty of synagogues where dissenting views – on God, on Israel, on Zionism, on matters of actual kashrut, on the role of non-Jews –...Read more...
WHAT YOUR RABBI WANTS TO SAY THIS PASSOVER
18/04/2024 09:30:06 PM
WHAT YOUR RABBI WANTS TO SAY THIS PASSOVER
For many of my waking hours, and for too many hours that should not be waking hours, I ponder this: what do folks want their rabbi to be saying right now?
I know what I would prefer to be offering: creative and uplifting visions about the Passover seder; creative and uplifting...Read more...
Here and There
15/02/2024 05:34:45 PM
HERE AND THERE
Here: the memes proliferate, the slogans fly, the protests surge.
There: the suffering mounts, intolerably.
Here, in our non-war torn lives, it’s hard to know how much to tap into the enduring torment that prevails over there - amongst those struggling to survive in Gaza, or those waiting for their loved ones taken hostage on October 7 to return – and still be able to maintain that...Read more...
December's Dates
06/12/2023 09:00:13 PM
And Yet... Towards Hope
07/11/2023 10:05:06 PM
Elusive Words Towards Peace.
25/10/2023 12:00:44 PM
Holy Masking Batman
12/09/2023 10:30:12 PM
BRESLAV and PEACE
02/03/2022 12:36:06 PM
In our Kol Haneshamah Shabbat and Festival prayerbook, the prayer for peace comes from Ukraine.
In a way, this declaration somewhat condenses the geo-history of the place, specifically the Jewish peoples’ place in that place. Yet there is no doubt that the figure...Read more...
"FOR SHE TOO IS LIKE A TREE"
06/01/2022 05:48:39 PM
Looking back on some previous reflections on Tu Bishvat, I found this message, one that feels keenly relevant to this year:
We find ourselves, deep in winter, in the month of the Jewish New Year of the Trees, Tu Bishvat. At this time of the year the trees seem to the eye to be life-less. Where do we...Read more...
Fri, 20 September 2024
