Seeking a Shared Dream, a Shared Path, a Shared Fate
The mathematician Steven Strogatz writes: At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat; the sound of cycles in sync.
Debbie Niederman
Our True Passion
Focal Point Adonai spoke to Moses, saying, "Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion." (Numbers 25:10-11) D'var Torah Parashat
Reading an Ancient Practice
Is Tazria a parashah that indexes Jewish connections between purity and community health?
Ethics versus Ritual
One of the great modern teachers of Judaism, Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, zichrono livrachah,urged Reform Jews to ritualize the ethical and ethicize the ritual.
Drawing Near to Torah
I did not have a typical Reform Movement upbringing, and would say that the three years I lived on an island in Alaska are probably most emblematic of that.