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

(Photo/peakpx.com) A few weeks back, the Torah brought us the disturbing story of the deaths of Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu, an apparent...

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/Flickr-wwworks CC BY 2.0) According to one version of the Hanukkah story, Hanukkah celebrates the remarkable victory of a small...

At the start of parashat Lech Lecha, the third parasha in the book of Genesis, God commands Abram and Sarai — not yet renamed Abraham and...

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...

As American society wrestles with its history of criminal injustice, a classic piece of rabbinic commentary on this week’s portion...

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...

Imagine a person whose politics are different from your own - a real, decent person. Would you give them a lift if their car died?

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

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

As I write, I do not yet know who has won the presidential election. You might not know either. In this period of suspense and...

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...