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Shannah Tovah. We begin now the new year 5779. We cannot know, as the Unetaneh Tokef reminds us, what we shall experience in this next year. Each of us will stand before our [Read more...]

Forgive the personal riff. It is Sunday the 19th and I just returned home from a drive I have been making for some 55 years. In June of 1963 I got in my car to drive to be a [Read more...]

We have entered, as a community, the month prior to the Holidays. The Hebrew month of Elul now confronts us. I use the word advisedly. We are confronted by the need to take [Read more...]

I just finished reading the new Parker Palmer book “On The Brink Of Everything”. Lots to think about. Transitions are a challenge! He wrote this as he reflected [Read more...]

Saturday night, July 21, as Shabbat ends, the Jewish calendar turns to Tisha B’Av; the commemoration of the destruction by the Babylonians of the 1st Temple in @586BCE [Read more...]

Every once in a while we have the opportunity to take in a dose of quiet decency in the midst of a world of chaos. On the suggestion of many friends and family, we finally [Read more...]

In her latest “Baby Boomer Bubbe” column for jewishsacredaging.com, Sandy wrote about suicide. The news about the rise in suicide has been in the press a lot [Read more...]

Fathers Day is tough. I must admit this. I mean, Mother’s Day gets a ton of attention with flowers and brunches and it always seemed, to me, that dads get a sort of, [Read more...]

Dr. Marc Agronin has written a trendy and challenging book, recently published by Life Long Press, entitled “The End of Old Age”. In his opening, he writes that [Read more...]