We Are The Children of Immigrants & Slaves
I am a child of immigrants. So are you, I imagine. Most of us here in America are. Some came …
Author Archives: SRQ Jew
What If We Completely Reimagined How We Treat Immigrants?
This week’s Torah portion begins with the sentence, “God appeared before Abraham.” But the very next sentence is about three …
When We Open the Door
It is 3:00 a.m. The 12-pound Havanese wakes up. The 76-pound Malamute wakes up. I wake up. I open the …
The Trouble With Noah
An ad for Snopes made me laugh today. It reads: “BREAKING NEWS: Disinformation is Spreading Faster Than Ever!” The people …
What My Dad Taught Me About Socialists (and Politics)
The November elections cannot come fast enough. I haven’t heard the word liar so many times since the TV ads …
Which Day is October 7?
When is the right day to commemorate a tragedy? The question becomes complicated — even more so than the complications …
Opening the Door
It is less than a week before October 7. This is the third year we remember that date. Remember the …
The Wisdom of Joanne Fink this Sukkot
Driving home from dinner in a friend’s sukkah, I glanced up and saw the full moon. A perfect disk hung …
They Deserved No Less
The High Holidays aren’t over. Sukkot comes next, then Shmini Atzeret, then Simchat Torah. But for me, as a working …
Standing Before God
Today is Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath of turning, returning. Not that we want to turn back, or turn away from …
