A Shavuot of Transition
Shalom. We will greet the festival of Shavuot very soon. A time of celebration and, in many congregations, Confirmation. For many the festival is sort of an unofficial end of [Read more...]
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National Health Care Decision Day: A Blessing for Signing Your Advanced Directive/Health Care Proxy
April 16 marks the annual Health Care Decision Day. This was an idea whose time is very very meaningful. It is a day designed to focus attention on the need for families to [Read more...]
Sh’mini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) The Defeaning Sound of Silence
After about an hour flight, our helicopter dropped us off on the top of a mountain, on a glacier. The sky was a blue that defied description. The air was crisp. There was no [Read more...]
Pesach and the Song of Songs: We End The Festival Yearning To Be Needed!
With this Shabbat we close the Festival of Passover. The Torah reading relates the Exodus and the Sea of Reeds. As is tradition, a m’gillah (scroll) is part of the [Read more...]
Passover: All I Want For Passover Is………..!
I doubt many of us would have thought, a year ago, that we would still be planning Zoom seders a year later. Yet, here we are again. When last year we asked “what does [Read more...]
Va’yek’hel/P’kuday: (Exodus 35:1 to end of Exodus): My Building. My Future?
This double portion brings us to the end of the Book of Exodus. We are overwhelmed by the details of the construction of the mishkan, its furnishings, the work of Betzalel [Read more...]
A Prayer For Loved One Coping With Covid
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub has given us permission to post his prayer for someone we love who is dealing with Covid. We offer this as we remember the over half million people [Read more...]
What Is Behind The Curtain: The Wizard and Us!
I recently finished a teaching for a congregation as part of a series we called “Sacred Cinema”. The last film I asked them to watch, with Jewish lenses, was [Read more...]
Kavod v’Nichum webinars on justice in Jewish tradition now available at no cost
Kavod v’Nichum offers two free webinars with Laurie Zoloth, a dynamic and world-renowned professor of Jewish ethics. [Read more...]
Standing In Life: Our Bodies Our Health, Our Blessing!
It is heart month. It is Jewish Disabilities Month. It is a time in the year that many try to focus on issues of health. It deserves focus not for a month, but for every day. [Read more...]
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