Galilee Diary: Galilee encounters
8 Tips on How to Be a Positive Jewish Role Model
What does it take to be a positive Jewish role model?
Celebrating Shabbat in Tel Aviv the Reform Way
Last Friday night, I celebrated Kabbalat Shabbat in Tel Aviv, but not in my usual manner.
Galilee Diary: Winter
It is life we want, no more and no less than that, our own life feeding on our own vital sources, in the fields and under the skies of our homeland, a life based on our own physical and mental labors; we want vital energy and spiritual richness from this living source.
In the Desert: A Poem for Shabbat Zachor
I remember
I remember slings and arrows,
Cruel fortune that cast me into the desert
No, no-
The first desert was freedom
And faith
And miracle.
So no: not that desert.
This was a desert of
Where was God then? Where is God now?
Rabbi Billy Dreskin is a rabbi at Woodlands Community Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation in Greenburgh, New York.
Defending the State of Israel, One Kiddush at a Time
Even with support of other IDF volunteers, Basic Training was stressful, demoralizing, and chaotic. Why, then, did I volunteer to lead Kiddush at a Shabbat dinner?