This Yom Kippur, Let Your Emotions Serve as "Radical Blessings"
The Mistaken Equivalency of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism
A dilemma for Diaspora Jews: Identify as Jews and reconcile that identification with a Jewish State that often is perceived as the incarnate of evil.
Exodus! 40 Hours of Service for 40 Years in the Desert
HEART Program: Help Educate and Renew Trust
22,202 CE: A Year With No Rosh HaShanah
Soon, Jews around the world will celebrate the beginning of the Jewish new year, 5781, and many of us will do so not from our synagogues as usual, but rather from our homes, looking into our computer sc
Let's Talk About Food: Temple Sinai (Toronto, ON)
Hanukkah: The Secret Strategy of Jewish Survival
Every Hanukkah, we thank God for the miracle of the season. But what was the miracle? Simply this: The Maccabees and their legacy survived.
The Judaism I Envision
If we place ourselves in the narrative of Jacob and Vayeitzei, how will our story look? Let's set out on adventures.
Year of Social Action
Together to End Racial Profiling
How often does your rabbi say in his or her High Holy Day sermon, “Take out your phones and make a call?” Over the holiday season, that’s exactly what rabbis across California did. Governor Brown heard those calls, and he responded with a clear step forward for racial justice.&n