#WhateverItTakes as We Journey Through the Wilderness
Summer 2015 was a historic and momentous summer: we applauded when the Supreme Court affirmed key tenets of the Affordable Care Act in King v.
Chocolate Smooths Transitions into High Holidays
How Will You Reflect on This Year?
The 10 days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur are a time for sincere reflection.
At Rosh HaShanah, Reform Jews Appeal for an International Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
In Jewish tradition, the entire month before Rosh HaShanah is devoted to a searching examination of our words and deeds over the past year. This examination, this accounting, is both personal and communal.
Ambassador Saperstein’s Visit Highlights Religious Freedom Concerns in China
On his recent visit to the People’s Republic of China, former Director of the Religious Acti
The Torah In Haiku: Nitzavim
Why Are Forgiving and Asking Forgiveness So Difficult?
Everywhere I look, I am surrounded by apologia.
Galilee Diary: By the Sea
Elik was born from the sea. That’s what father used to tell me…
-- opening words of Moshe Shamir’s memoir of his brother who was killed in the war of 1948, With His Own Hands (Chapters of Elik), 1951.
Return Again: A Poem for Yom Kippur
Return.
Again.
I have returned again
to this place of
Fullness,
this place of everythingness;
and I feel empty.
Hollow.
Again.
I fling my sins,
all bright copper
and colored feathers,
out into the heavens -
Which is separate from the earth,