Where Is God?
Sign outside a nearby church: “God is with you always.” Knowing in our hearts that God is always there is …
Category Archives: God
Leadership
Last month I became the new president of the local rabbinical association. Don’t congratulate me. I accepted the role grumbling, …
Fear and Faith
I’m an educator, so I get lots of ads for teaching tools in my inbox. Today’s haul included a curriculum …
When We Lift Up the Light
It is Shabbat, and although I have not opened my Bible this morning, I cannot get the Torah portion out …
Awaiting the Storm
It’s June, and here in Florida that means the official beginning of hurricane season. Not that we’re going to see …
Second Chances
Today is my favorite Jewish kinda-sorta-holiday. It’s Pesach Sheni — second Passover. The Biblical situation where it arises is extraordinary. …
On The Way Home
I have long believed that baseball is a near-perfect analogy for how we think about home, and perhaps for life …
Massi di Cemmo: Where Humans & God Met
Today I stood in a valley between Italian mountains and saw where the hand of God touched human hands. But …
Hug a Tree
I cannot begin to express at this moment how much I love being Jewish. I just learned that in the …
A Jew and A Muslim…
Yesterday evening I was in an Uber, traveling from the airport to a friend’s house. My driver was originally from …
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