Shabbat Shalom, Y'all! Reform Jews Take Part in the Moral March on Raleigh
On the Shabbat of February 8th, I had the incredible privilege of participating in the seventh annual Moral March on Raleigh, organized by the North Carolina NAACP.
Rabbi Fred Guttman
God's Whispers
I do believe that some of the time, God whispers to us in the same way that God spoke to Jonah. As I reflect upon all of these incidents, I realize that by paying attention to these divine whispers, I have leaned much personal Torah.
The Shofar Blasts as a Metaphor for Life
If, as the Talmud tells us, the blasts of the shofar are meant to remind us of crying, (Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 33A – specifically of Sisera’s mother – but that is another subject!), then I would offer the following.
There are times when we are like
A Rabbi's Letter to the Boy Scouts About Equality
The following is a letter I sent last week to the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Nashville, TN. A native of Nashville, I once belonged to Troop 31, sponsored by St. Georges Episcopal Church.
Dear Friends,
I am writing as a rabbi and
From Sderot to Boston: The Worst and Best of Humanity
I have just returned from the 2013 March of the Living to Poland and Israel. As I write this, the people of the United States are still in shock at the horrific bombing in Boston.
