Who do you want to be when the virus has passed? How will you have changed?

When we have come through this, let us turn our pain, fear and loneliness into a new way of being with others and as citizens of the world.

Ometz lev is a quality of willingness to speak truth to power and also a quality of the heart: strength tempered by love and gentleness.

Ten months after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, I moved to Palo Alto. When our first Sukkot arrived, members of the Jewish community...

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak teaches that with every breath we take, God breathes life into us as on the day of creation.

I have been to many demonstrations at Palo Alto City Hall. But there was something special about the one on Aug. 11, for Tish'a B'Av.

The Israelite spies were sent on a sacred mission and they failed spectacularly. Why? Because they let fear overpower them, overwhelming...

When life is stormy and confusing, wouldn’t it be amazing to have a spiritual navigation system to tell us what we need to do?

(published in Yashar, the Newsletter of The Mussar Institute, January 2019) When my daughter was a little girl, she had an uncanny...