What does allyship actually look like? Sometimes it looks like a father showing up for his child, exactly as they are.
Continue ReadingA Blessing at 30,000 Feet
You never know when a blessing will arrive from an unexpected source. Sometimes it comes from the stranger sitting beside you on an airplane.
Continue ReadingBeyond the Covered Bridge: Finding Sinai in a Fractured World
In a fractured world marked by hatred and division, Shavuot calls us to moral courage, human dignity, and the sacred work of repair.
Continue ReadingIn the Wilderness Between Two Jerusalems
As we begin the Book of Numbers, (“in the wilderness”) and mark Yom Yerushalayim, two disturbing reports force us to confront the painful distance between truth, moral clarity, and the world we inhabit today.
Continue ReadingLet Us Strengthen One Another
As we complete the Book of Leviticus this Shabbat, “Chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek” reminds us that strength and resilience are found through community, compassion, and our willingness to uplift one another.
Continue ReadingAn Island in Time
A mountain retreat opens into reflection, connection, and a gentle return to Shabbat as sacred pause.
Continue ReadingStones With a Human Heart
Even in times of uncertainty, the human heart can remain open to hope and the promise of a better tomorrow.
Continue ReadingBetween Heaven and Earth
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 …
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