I had not been excited about going to the Reconstructionist convention. In this divisive climate I have felt rather isolated among rabbis, I didn’t know what it would be like to be in a rabbinical scene. Spoiler: it was good.
Read moreThe Unfolding Now
This is what I want for all of us — Jews and everyone else living in this time — to survive the terrible and to keep flourishing through it.
Read moreDoing the Bully's Work
In this week's Torah, Joseph is thrown into a pit, bullied by a gang of brothers, because of his difference. And also this week Sutter Health has similarly tossed to their fate our transgender children, doing the bully's work even before the bully asked them to do it. How will we respond?
Read moreInsistence of Blessing, Insistence of Life
May we draw deep from the waters of life, the groundwater of blessing, in order to respond confidently to the catastrophes around us, in this country and in Gaza. Sermon for Erev Yom Kippur 5786.
Read moreIn the Peacemaker's Tent
What if Torah tells it wrong? What if wandering in the desert was not a punishment but a chosen path for a people who did not want to become Pharaoh? An alternative take on Shlach Lekha.
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