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

Leaders of the Conservative Movement reflect on our recent Racial Justice Pilgrimage

(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...

(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 Rev. William Barber (left) and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, lead a demonstration outside the U.S....

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...

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...

Will President Biden's call for unity lead to a betrayal of his commitment to racial and economic justice?

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...

I can only hope that the agony of these weeks will serve as a sound of the trumpets, awakening our nation to the institutional racism.

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.

We must arise from our posture of humility in order to practice transformative love, emulate God’s ways and spend our lives in service.

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.

This year I can visualize the scapegoat being cast out by the community, because I have seen it on the streets of San Francisco.

Still aching from the horror of the massacre at the mosques in New Zealand, I found myself at a remarkable gathering last week. It was...

I just returned from a sacred pilgrimage. The place was the new National Memorial of Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in...

It was late on Friday afternoon, and I was on my way to a Catholic church, where I would soon lead Shabbat candle-lighting for a large...

Think of a young child whom you love. Remember a time when your beloved child was tired, hungry or uncomfortable. What did she do?...