As the summer passes its midway point, rabbis begin to think seriously about the coming Days of Awe. We know that Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur provide us the largest congregations we are likely to see during the year.

It is a humbling and daunting task to

If posting an apology online serves as a starting point for follow-up conversations, I say go for it. How could that ever be a bad thing?

Elul is our time to connect to Israel – for ourselves, for our people, and for our land.

When my congregation publicized its four-day camping and canoe trip in Michigan, how could we resist such an unusual temple offering?

This High Holidays season, as we think about racial justice and voting rights this late summer and fall, we’re also thinking about other key issues that are important to repairing our broken world and combating racial injustice.

It is for good reason that Jews close Yom Kippur — just before the blowing of the shofar — with the triumphant cry from the wonderful passage (First Kings, Chapter 19) in which Elijah vanquishes the prophets of Ba’al on Mt. Carmel:  “Adonai, hu haElohim!

I attended a small college in upstate New York, about five hours from my home, and I did not go home for Rosh HaShanah my freshman year. In terms of observing the holiday, I didn’t know what to do with myself.

Even though my college had a substantial Jewish

In June, I saw a post in a local Facebook group that intrigued me: "Stop! Take a break! Join us for Group Meditation in the City."

With this notice, a young couple, Hadas and Netanel Cohen, invited Nahariyanis  (residents of Nahariya, Israel, where I live) to

“On Rosh HaShanah, the year’s decree is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed, who will live and who will die…”

We hear these words each year in our High Holidays prayer book, and they fill our hearts with dread: Have I done what was right, or at least the