This past Wednesday, just a few hours before the heavy and painful day of Tisha B'Av, my aunt Devra called. It was time-sensitive and sweet: she wanted to know how to stream our Tisha B'Av [...]

Every year we tell the story, again and again. This week we add another layer as we begin the last book of the Torah, Devarim, "words," or "things." It opens: "These are the devarim that Moses spoke to [...]

We Jews are a lunar people — our calendar is driven by the cycle of the moon. The new Hebrew month begins with that tiny sliver of the new moon, and next week, on [...]

Consider for a moment the purpose of a birthday celebration. We gather to rejoice in the being of the person whose birth we are commemorating. We are grateful and happy that this person came [...]

I knew Brad Lander when we were teenagers. Not well. We weren't close friends. But we moved in the same circles, NFTY conventions, the Reform Jewish youth movement that shaped so many of us who [...]

This evening of Shabbat falls on Juneteenth, a federal holiday since 2021. It relates in powerful ways to core values in our Jewish tradition, and should matter deeply to us especially given important relationships that [...]