"We must embody a sense of wholeness and holiness in our worth as a people. We must move ahead, yes, with vigilance, but also with purpose and joy—defining ourselves by the essential values we share and traditions we hold dear, instead of by our people’s oppression, and relegation to the graveyards of our past."
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For some of you, it is not a big secret that I went to high school with the actress, Jennifer Aniston. She and I actually...
Living Out Loud as Jews
A dispatch from the old country: The USSR suffered chronic shortages of consumer goods. Early one morning a rumor circulated...
Passover Yizkor
Coming from an Italian family, everything was about the sauce. I remember going from the train station on Spring Street...
Published
My Daughter's Bris and the Mystery That Reveals Itself - The Times of Israel
In Genesis, chaos is transformed into order – and yet change, disorder and the unexpected are the constants in our lives...
The Plague in Our House: the Opioid Epidemic - The Religious Action Center
Growing up in Manhattan, there were a lot of places my parents warned me to avoid, but the one area that loomed large...
We Can't Give Up on the Heart of Our Democracy - Reform Judaism
Back in 2018, I met a woman active in the Jewish community here in Cleveland, OH, where I live. As we shared stories about...
E-Blast Articles
Elizabeth Baptist Church Visit to Mishkan Or
At a 1963 confereence on “Religion and Race” organized by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
Living Out Loud as Jews
A dispatch from the old country: The USSR suffered chronic shortages of consumer goods. Early one morning a rumor circulated...
Passover Yizkor
Coming from an Italian family, everything was about the sauce. I remember going from the train station on Spring Street...