The Joy of Gratitude Hebrew is a language with deep meanings that go way beyond an outer definition, and to understand foundational...

Will our connections with each other slowly melt away? Clearly, we are not paying attention Or taking advantage of obvious opportunities....

Mitzvah. Good deed? Commandment? You might be most familiar with the word mitzvah as it appears in Bar or Bat Mitzvah which is usually...

What if God is waiting for us to cry out? What if all we need to do is to cry out in despair, as Abraham did thousands of years ago?...

Torah is a living entity in my life and is an endless and forever Giving-Tree. It is this imagery that captures me when we lift the Torah...

I read something from an unlikely source that struck my deepest core as a Jew, and came to a full stop at a passage from the first...

Joni Mitchell, Woodstock Woodstock There are plenty of stories about the “half a million strong” that were part of Woodstock, and even...

It is hard for me to personalize Shavuot, though I know there is great spiritual meaning to be found within it. Shavuot is one of the...

What would you do in an emergency? I heard something disturbing that I couldn’t shake off. This is not what I usually write about, but I...

For those of us hosting a Passover seder, there are often so many preparations we need to do in advance: buying, organizing, cleaning and...

How do you wake up every morning? Do you have a particular ritual? In Judaism, we have a tradition of waking up with a declaration of...

Nice Seder, but not intensified Same Seder, intensified! What will you do to construct meaningful memories at Passover this year? The...

The incredible beauty of the Venice Synagogue. The intricately carved mehitzah (separation) is on the far left. The rabbi’s D’var Torah...

Sloppy Words, Sloppy Food At times, I resist writing a post because I just don’t want to spend the time doing all the research it might...

What if we took our New Year Celebration to the streets? What are we, as Jews, missing? Clearly something, since others, especially...