From Bereavement to Redemption and Hope
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi reflects on the upcoming Tisha B'av observance and its ability to take us from bereavement to redemption and hope. [Read more...]
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Rabbi Address’s blog includes reflections on the challenges and joys of aging and their implications for our families.
Spiritual Leaders Responding to Covid-19: An Interfaith Dialogue
We want to make known to you a very interesting conference that is being held next week, Friday July 16, on Zoom, focusing on a an interfaith approach to how faith leaders [Read more...]
America, 2021
Photo by Alex Martinez on Unsplash Editor’s Note: This essay by Rabbi Norman S. Lipson first appeared in the contributed blogs section of The Times of Israel, and is [Read more...]
Post Pandemic Judaism and the Multiple Paths to One’s Truth
I am a believer in the impact of pop culture as an indicator of how things are going and will go in our society. So it was interesting to read a story in the June 22 [Read more...]
Seeing Life Through Rose Colored Glasses
Carole Leskin is reminded of some simple pleasures of life. [Read more...]
For Pride Month, A Blessing on Transitioning
There is a lot written now regarding trans-gender issues. The subject has continued to get more attention and press during this month. For Boomers and our families this issue [Read more...]
Can Religion Provide Us Any Hope?
Like many of you, these past days have been filled with a sense of hopelessness. Between the events in the Middle-East, the continuing childish political theatre of Congress, [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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