Understanding the Significance of the Akeidah for Modern Jewish Thought
The New Year is a Chance to Realign Our Actions with Our Values
How can we hold ourselves accountable for our actions? How can we follow through with changing our own lives?
My Reform Jewish Journey: Using My Brain and Finding My Faith
I was raised in a small farming town in Tennessee where nearly everyone was a Southern Baptist.
Facing Mortality and Choosing Life
You stand this day, all of you, before the Eternal your God – you tribal heads, you elders, and you officials, all the men of Israel, you children, you women, even the stranger within your camp, from wood chopper to water drawer – to enter into the cov
It Shouldn’t Take a Pandemic to Return Us to Ourselves
Tikkun Middot: Bringing Ourselves into Balance for the New Year
Wrestling With Abraham
What Was that Noah Movie About, Anyway?
The movie Noah, released in theaters across America last year, generated its share of controversy among religious reviewers and bloggers. Some said the film is only loosely connected with the biblical story of Noah.
Seeing Through the Darkness: Inside Charlottesville’s Synagogue One Week Later
May we continue to be inspired by Congregation Beth Israel to turn darkness into light, to turn fear into resolve, to turn xenophobia into acceptance, and to turn hatred into hope.
Covenant and Law: Reading through the Ages
The second portion of Deuteronomy, Va-et’chanan, is an unusual Torah portion in many respects.