“Go forth from your land, your birthplace, your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.” Could this…
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“Noah was a righteous man; he walked with God,” we read at the start of this week’s Torah portion. How…
I grew up in the environmentally conscious San Francisco Bay Area where I was trained to do my part in…
And In the End… And in the end the love you take Is equal to the love you make Paul…
There is a strange overlap that occurs during the days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. While we celebrated the…
The choice is yours. Okay, so it might not always feel that way: we human beings must rush from obligation…
I’m sure you’ve heard the famous story about the young man who demanded that Rabbi Hillel teach him “all of Torah…
“Justice, justice, shall you pursue.” These are, without a doubt, the most memorable lines from this week’s Torah portion, parshat…
Ours is not the only time, place and culture besotted by putative “leaders” whose basis for power and position is…
As a rabbi, I’m saddened when I encounter people who feel rejected by Judaism because of reactionary or punitive Torah verses, exclusionary…