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 moreBeing a Tree
So much is demanded of us now but I, for one, have been feeling inert, immobile. Tu Bishvat reminds us to have patience – the sap will again rise.
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 moreRock of Ages, Reconsidered
I had cause to do a deep dive into Ma’oz Tzur – our old Chanukah song, sung in English as “Rock of Ages.” So much more to it than I’d ever thought. I went from indifference to love. Come geek out with me.
Read moreMy Mother's Thanksgivings
Gone a dozen years now, the flavor of my grief has changed, and memory is sweet.
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