Why I Love Christmas

December 25, 2025

It is Christmas Day, and I find myself reading an in-depth article by Dr. Rabbi Amy-Jill Levine on the deep …

Never Alone

November 28, 2024

There is an old Hasidic story about a trio of friends who decided to see if Shabbat had to be …

December 25, 2020

It’s Christmas, and just as our Jewish community had to make enormous changes in our observance of the High Holidays, …

December 26, 2019

Five years is a long time, especially if you’ve made major life changes. In July 2014 I began writing weekly …

December 21, 2018

In these few days before Christmas, a simple phrase from this week’s Torah portion becomes especially relevant to me. It …