As I write this I am doing the last minute things before I leave for Israel – packing, cooking a chicken for Shabbat and for my husband to eat while I am gone, learning how to use my new digital camera… There is always too much that gets left to the last
I was excited to see the new issue of Reform Judaism magazine opening with Rabbi Rick Jacobs’s message on pluralism. Rabbi Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes of the loss of his “beloved teacher” Rabbi David Hartman, whose “enlightened
“Did you know?” asked my husband’s Israeli granddaughter, at 16 indignant and adamant. “Reform Jews don’t believe the State of Israel should even exist!”
“Nonsense!” I responded, not a little indignant myself. “How can you say such a thing?!”
“I learned it