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?...