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 Anxiety of Purim
All these feelings – the fears, the desire for things to be quiet, for Jews to be quiet, this whole tangle of ancestral anxiety inside of me – it all comes into view at Purim time when we read the Book of Esther. This ancient book of ours is a symphony of anxiety.
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 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?
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