Second Chances
Today is my favorite Jewish kinda-sorta-holiday. It’s Pesach Sheni — second Passover. The Biblical situation where it arises is extraordinary. …
Category Archives: God
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 …
The God of Judaism
For many years, I made my living as a fundraiser in the Jewish community. This week‘s Torah portion was one …
Where Thanksgiving and Judaism Meet
Every year someone asks me whether Thanksgiving is a Jewish holiday. There are two completely opposite answers to this question, …
New Beginnings
The hostages came home, and we slowly entered a week of overflowing emotion — laughter that burst out uninvited, tears …
Curses, Blessings, and 9/11
Curses and blessings. The Torah offers them in the same breath — and so does life. Just when everything seems …
Telling Moses “We’re OK”
As a rabbi who writes a weekly essay, I’ve come to realize that I have much greater freedom since I …
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