The Holiness of Separation
As a kid, Shabbat meant brisket. I loved that. Every once in a while, my mother would get inspired and feel the need to… cook? No, she always cooked in those days.
Why We Do the Work We Do
Six times a year, the RAC staff has the opportunity to work with incredible groups of high school students from across the country at our Bernard and Audre Rapoport L'Taken Social Justice Semi
Compassion Is the Best Medicine
The Stories That Statistics Can't Tell
On Organ Donation and the Importance of Hope
Let’s cover the basics first: About 11 years ago, I was diagnosed with kidney disease. Almost three years ago, I started dialysis. About a year and half ago, I got a kidney transplant.
Thoughts from a Newly Ordained Rabbi
Pirkei Avot 2:2
Galilee Diary: Sustainability II
God placed in [the heavens] a tent for the sun, who is like a groom coming forth from his chamber, like a hero, eager to run his course. His rising-place is at one end of the heaven, and his circuit reaches the other; nothing escapes his heat.
Galilee Diary: Interfaith
I think the Jewish question is no more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes takes these and other forms.
Galilee Diary: Sustainability III
They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according toits kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
Galilee Diary: Interfaith II
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people saying: When any of you or of your posterity who are defiled by a corpse or are on a long journey [on the date of Passover, the 14th of the first month] would offer a Passover sacri