By Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
I was having a conversation last week over Zoom with a friend I’ve known for over 20 years. She and I were talking about the many, many challenges for us human beings in these months ahead: Of staying healthy. Of keeping our jobs. Of fighting for racial justice…
By Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
Many of us are grieving the death of George Floyd and the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony Robinson, and many others. We are living through a tumultuous time of a worldwide pandemic and also a time of civic engagement and a national protest movement…
By Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman
Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman delivered this talk at the Community Tikkun Leil Shavuot: Building Resiliency in Uncertain Times on May 28, 2020.
I could have never imagined that I would grab a hand-sewn mask and a bottle of sanitizer before leaving the house to run an err…
By Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
This past weekend, I was watching a new series on one of the streaming services when one element of this program immediately caught my eye, and my tongue got caught in my throat instantly.
A young man was meeting the father of his love interest for the first time,…
By Rabbi Betsy Forester
Last week, my colleague Rabbi Mendel Matusof wrote here about the great mystical sage, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (“Rashbi”), the Kabbalist and author of the Zohar, whose yahrzeit was observed on Lag BaOmer, this past Tuesday. I would like to extend that theme by sh…
