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May 2024

May 28, 2024

When Dropping Obligations is a Mitzvah

By Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman Parashat Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34) “Neurodiversity is a movement to claim...

May 20, 2024

Proclaiming Release: Why We Need a Jubilee Now

By Rabbi Ilana Zeitman, HC '19 Parashat Behar Leviticus 25:1-26:2 My two-year-old is starting to...

April 2024

April 08, 2024

Finding Humanity Amid Randomness

By Rabbi Justin David Parashat Tazria Leviticus 12:1-13:59 Early in my years as a rabbinical...

December 2023

December 11, 2023

How to Predict the Present

By Rabbi Matthew Ponak Parashat Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17) What a gift it would be to see...

November 2023

November 16, 2023

Possession, Envy, and Hope

Parashat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) By Naomi Gurt Lind Growing up, there was a time when one...

June 2023

June 27, 2023

Striking out in all the wrong places

Parashat Chukat-Balak (Numbers 19:1-25:9) Rabbi Shani Rosenbaum The sequence of parashiyot that follows us through...

June 28, 2022

The Blossoming Almond Staff of Aaron

by Rav Dr. Rachel Adelman Parashat Korach (Numbers 16:1 – 18:32) Inspired by Rabbi Giulia...

June 22, 2022

A Biblical Body Image Problem

By Minna Bromberg, PhD, RAB `10 Parashat Shelach Lecha (Numbers 13:1 - 15:41) So close!...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

Reading, Healing & Remembering

By Frankie Sandmel Parshat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1–18:30) Parshat Acharei Mot, in all honesty, evokes a...

April 12, 2022

With Blossom and Blood: Painting Our Path to Liberation

Pesach (Exodus 12:21-12:51) by Rabbi Adina Allen וּלְקַחְתֶּם אֲגֻדַּת אֵזוֹב וּטְבַלְתֶּם בַּדָּם אֲשֶׁר בַּסַּף וְהִגַּעְתֶּם...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The Blessing of Asking for Help

Parashat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) By Heather Renetzky Parashat Tazria, with its long and dry list of...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

The Languages We Speak

Parashat Vayetze (Genesis 28:10-32:3) By Leah Carnow | November 9, 2021 As I write, I...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Lag BaOmer: Starting Over Yet Again

Lag BaOmer By Rabbi Ebn Leader April 28, 2021 On Thursday night (April 29) we will...

April 06, 2021

When Aaron Had No Words

Leviticus 9:1-11:47 By Leah Carnow | Apr 05, 2021 There is a story told in Avot D’Rabbi Natan that when...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Sharing Our Legacies

Parashat Vayechi (Genesis 47:28 – 50:26) By Susan Shevitz | December 30, 2020 In this age of...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

Awash in Prophecy

Parashat Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26 - 16:17) By Frankie Sandmel | Aug 15, 2020 Re’eh—perceive, see,...

April 2020

April 06, 2020

Thought Leadership in a Time of Challenge

By Rabbi Jeffrey Summit Abraham Joshua Heschel taught that our spiritual tradition “begins with a...

April 01, 2020

The Todah Offering in a Dark Time

Parashat Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36) By Rabbi Jim Morgan For someone in my field of geriatric...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Vayikra In These Days

Parashat Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26) By Lydia Kukoff Between the months since I was assigned Parashat...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

Classification of Plantlife

By Rabbi Gray Myrseth Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) You shall take a bunch of hyssop...

January 21, 2020

The Scrolls of Redemptions (Megillot haGe’ulah)

By Rachel Adelman Parashat Va’eira (Exodus 6:2-9:35) I recently heard a fascinating interview with the psychiatrist Bessel...

January 15, 2020

How to Use Your Privilege

By Rabbi Avi Killip Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) Moses is the original social justice lobbyist....

January 07, 2020

Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty

Parashat Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26) This Shabbat, we complete the first full week of the new...

December 2019

December 16, 2019

I Dreamed a Dream

By Rabbi Avi Strausberg Parshat Vayeishev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) We have dreamed a dream and there...

December 04, 2019

Jacob’s Ladder: Finding Wonder in Life’s Highs, Lows, and Middles Too

Parashat Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3) A few summers ago, my family was camping in Franconia Notch...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Little Robes for the New Year

By Joey Glick Parashat B’reishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) I said to the sun tell me about...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

Holding The Shattered Tablets

By Rabbi Ebn Leader Parashat Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) In this week’s parsha Moshe recounts the...

August 12, 2019

We Rise and We Crash: Prayer and Resistance

By Rabbi Becky SIlverstein Parashat Va-etchanen (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) “There’s an active mass shooting, we are...

August 08, 2019

Small Acts of Kindness

Tisha b’Av By Rabbi Or N. Rose On a warm and clear evening late last...

July 2019

July 16, 2019

Seeing Past Each Other’s Edges

By Rabbi Ilana Zietman Parshat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9) Although this week’s Torah reading is named...

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