TOPSHOT – A Palestinian girl looks for salvageable items amid the destruction on the southern outskirts of Khan Yunis in the war-battered...

I can only dream of what would happen if both peoples said to one another, "You know, the land doesn't really belong to either of us."

As Jews, we must remember that we were slaves in Egypt. As Americans, we a part of the chain of history that includes the horrors of slavery

A perfect opportunity to think about the virtue and practice of generosity, even in difficult times.

On Rosh Hashanah, it is written and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed: How many will die and how many will be born? Who will live and who will...

(Image from KQED) I'm proud to say that I recently published a piece on Jewish wisdom on reparations, with reference to the work of the...

There is so much dis-ease in the air. People feeling discouraged and alienated, if not downright despairing. The state of the nation and...

(image from https://www.ritmeyer.com/2020/07/31/https-www-youtube-com-watchvy5vuox09ryw/) I have been listening to a lot of lament in...

The Maggid section of the Haggadah imagines four distinct children, each with their own response to the Passover story. Many of us have...

(Image from https://www.boundless.org/faith/how-to-empty-your-cup-and-find-humility/) This week’s parashah, Vayikra, contains a famously...

A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered in awe at the foot of Mount Sinai for the revelation of the Ten Commandments, from...

Photo by Ardi Evans on Unsplash When my daughter was a baby many years ago, I remember being captivated by the ritual of bringing “first...

Photo by raquel raclette on Unsplash On the first day of Elul, I heard a beautiful teaching from Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on a webinar...

What a journey it has been through this unimaginable year and a half. The loss of so many loved ones, the collapse of our treasured...

During the first week of the Covid shutdown last year, I heard someone say that he had begun to look in the mirror each morning and say...

One of my favorite passages in the Torah appears at the very end of the Book of Exodus. After an extended set of descriptions of the...

At this time of social isolation and fragmentation, whom do you need to draw closer to? Vayigash, one of last month’s Torah portions,...

I’m so grateful that I don’t read the words of the machzor (High Holiday prayerbook) literally. If I believed that there were an...

Not to worry. Rosh Hashana does not begin until the evening of September 18th. There’s still time to prepare. But we have been living...

Tisha B’Av came early this year. We have been mourning and contemplating collective losses since early March, when the pandemic hit.