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February 2020

February 24, 2020

Turn It Over to God

Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19) By Rabbi Avi Strausberg A transatlantic flight to Israel.  Two adults,...

February 04, 2020

Sighing Towards The Source of Life

Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) By Rabbi Jordan Braunig Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) This week we...

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 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...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

Resist. Laugh. Hope.

Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24) By Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer, Rab`14 God walks into the tent...

November 06, 2019

“Go Forth” — Go to Yourself, for Yourself, and Beyond Yourself!

Parashat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) By Batya Ellinoy  This week’s Torah portion begins with God’s...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Belief and Disbelief in the Face of Climate Change

Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) Noah is a man of little faith. This is what Rashi,...

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...

October 07, 2019

Stop Making Sense

Parshat Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-1:52) We had a land and a book. Our land is in...

October 02, 2019

How Moses Comes to Terms with Mortality

Parashat Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30) In my work as a geriatric chaplain in a Jewish setting,...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Teshuvah: Wisdom from Teachers and Children

On Father’s Day 2015, I traveled with my children to New Haven, Connecticut to celebrate...

September 18, 2019

Telling Our Stories, Living Our Stories

By Frankie Sandmel Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) My fourth grade teacher was a Holocaust...

September 12, 2019

No Double Standards: Parashat Ki Tetzei

(Deuteronomy 21.10-25.19) By Rabbi Nehemia Polen Toward the end of this week’s parsha, the Torah...

September 12, 2019

Return Again

(Parashat Shoftim, Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) By Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer Three years ago, I returned from...

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 29, 2019

Wandering Jews: Thoughts on Parashat Masa’ey

By Rabbi Arthur Green  Parashat Masa’ey (Numbers 33:1-36:13) If there is a new Kabbalah to...

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...

July 09, 2019

Go Ahead and Ask Anyway

By Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman Parashat Hukat (Numbers 19:1 – 22:1) “Anyone who looks at four...

July 02, 2019

When the Earth Opened her Mouth

Parshat Korach, Numbers 16:1-18:32 By Rachel Adelman, PhD The earth hath bubbles, as the water...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

On Grasshoppers and Angels

Parashat Sh’lach Lecha (Numbers 13:1-15:41) By Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld At the beginning of this...

June 04, 2019

The Power of Teaching Torah

By Rabbi Daniel Schaefer Parashat B'midbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) Last Sunday, I had the privilege to...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Commemorating and Participating in Shavuot

Parashat Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34) By Rabbi Daniel Klein From its earliest understanding, the revelation of...

May 15, 2019

Speakers of Infinity and Finitude

Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23) A few weeks ago, my mother sent me the novel A...

April 2019

April 08, 2019

Unclench Those Hands

Parashat Metzora (Leviticus 14:1-15:33) By Rabbi Gray Myrseth  He shall send away the live bird...

April 02, 2019

Reverence for the Wondrous Life Force

Parashat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) By Rabbi Brian Besser The Levitical laws of purity strike the...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Making Space for Mystery

Parshat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) Rabbi Adina Allen Aaron’s first role as High Priest is to...

March 21, 2019

The Paradoxical Freedom of Routine

Parshat Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36) By Rabbi Benjamin Barer Judaism has always concerned itself with proscribing ritual...

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