This week asks something profound of us. It asks us to hold wonder and grief, hope and heartbreak, memory and responsibility, all at the same time. Just days ago, NASA’s Artemis II began its journey, circling the moon …
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, Mom!
Five days ago, on March 15th, marked the sixteenth yahrzeit of my mother. And today, March 20th, would have been her eighty-sixth birthday. She died just five days before turning seventy. Today is also the first …
Continue ReadingCourage As An Act of Holiness
Earlier this week, I found myself walking through a space not yet complete, and yet already filled with presence. In the historic Presidio in San Francisco, overlooking the quiet vastness of the bay, a new institution is …
Continue ReadingWhat Gifts Did You Bring?
The most meaningful gifts we can offer others are rarely material – they are the gifts of our presence, the gifts of compassion, understanding, and kindness.
Continue ReadingLGBTQ+ Rights are Jewish Rights
Shortly after I arrived in Raleigh, I encountered an unexpected and deeply sobering phenomenon. On multiple occasions, different people reached out to schedule appointments with me to ask how to apply for asylum in Canada. They …
Continue ReadingBearing Witness Commands Responsibility – Do Not be a Bystander
We pray for a world where God no longer cries nor grieves over what is taking place because we have figured out how to live with one another in compassion, kindness, harmony, justice, and peace.
Continue ReadingBuild Me a Sanctuary of Hope, Freedom, and Justice
I would like to ask you to “join hands and march together” with me on the journey we will begin with this election and going forward into the future.
Continue ReadingWhat’s Love Got to Do With It? Everything! A Valentine’s Message
We can bring love to our world by the actions of our hands and the deeds that we do. Valentine’s Day can become more universal in its reach: “love your neighbor as yourself.”
Continue ReadingInjustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere – Commemorating MLK, Jr.
The legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. demands that we pursue justice to turn his dream, and the dreams of all humanity, into a living reality.
Continue ReadingWhat is Your Name? A Video Podcast on the Nature of God
The Israeli poet Zelda said that we are each known by three names: the name our parents give us, the name others call us and the name we make for ourselves. But what is God’s name?
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