In an inability to find just the right prayer or song when our community gathered on Sunday morning, this chant came to me – just the word shalom, and music that I hope can help calm our aching, racing hearts and open us to a moment of breath (and tears).
Read moreIsrael, Anatevka, & the Jewish Soul – Video
In my Yom Kippur sermon last week, I explored the status of Israeli democracy protests, the connection of Israeli Occupation to the current crisis, and what it is in our American Jewish souls – the longing, the fear, and the insecurity – that keeps us silent. Now is the time to find our voice. Here it is in video.
Read moreIsrael, Anatevka, and the Jewish Soul
For Yom Kippur, I explore what it is in our American Jewish soul – the longing, the fear, and the insecurity – that keeps us silent when Israel (and Palestine) are under discussion. Now is the time to find our voice.
Read moreJerusalem Day
Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day – celebrates the reunification of the City. But it feels anything but unified. It can only be honored as a vision, but a vision in need of revision.
Read moreWhen the Earth Trembles
Just as the memory of earthquakes is wired into our bodies, so the memory of earthquakes is wired into our mythologies. Our ancestors understood earthquakes to be the very Earth trembling in God’s presence, as we ourselves certainly would. God is the physics of the earthquake and more than the physics. God is also in our pained experience of the catastrophe.
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