Joy Weinberg
Reach Higher Now: A Resolution for the Jewish New Year
Every year for 30 years, I’ve sat in a temple sanctuary on the High Holidays and watched a movie. It’s a movie only I can see – flashbacks of all the times I recall over the past 52 weeks when I didn’t measure up to the standards of my head, heart, and soul.
The Most Essential Takeaways - Jewish and Otherwise - of a College Education
What do you believe is the most essential takeaway from a college education?
An old quip says that if you ask five Jews a question and you’ll get more than five answers – and it holds true for the five Jewish presidents of American universities who responded
Jewish Life Lessons from Holidaying in France
When most people think of “France” and “Jews” together, past or current anti-Semitism comes to mind. That wasn’t our experience while vacationing in Brittany this summer, although we were just American tourists visiting for two weeks.
Fourteen days was
Reaching My Own Promised Land
When I think about my life
All that I’ve seen and done
I ask myself: Have I achieved
All that I might become…O… yes!…and no…
It is hard to reach all I can be
When oppression’s living within me
O help me now to end this slaveryHow many years of wandering
On Healing a Hardened Heart
“You hurt me.” “I feel betrayed.” “How can I trust you?” As the High Holidys draw near, questions of morality, goodness, justice, forgiveness began swirling round my psyche and my heart. I got married last May to a woman I love with all my being. We decided to
