Today I am at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. The weekday winter sun has just set and it’s time for evening prayers.…
Month: December 2011
Doves in the Cracks (Rosh Hanikra)
Old and new weave together in Akko’s old city. An adult driver, a teen cyclist and a child on horseback…
Morning in Akko
5:10 am. A beautiful tenor voice rings out in the darkness, calling me to wakefulness, if not yet mindfulness. The…
Lion's Journey
Disney’s The Lion King is part of our vocabulary at home. “Look harder.” (Rafiki) “There’s one in every family…two in…
Modern Religious Dilemma
Two signs call the faithful, the seekers, and the curious to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Times Square Discovery…
Dare to Dream
Pharaoh wakes terribly agitated from a nightmare. Seven skinny cows have eaten seven fat cows. “Those were the most awful…
Rabbis in Dreamtime
Dream: I am a university student, ready to graduate, waiting in my dormitory room. In a folder, I find a…
I Am My Father
Judah masterminds a plan to sell his annoying younger brother Joseph into slavery. To cover up the crime, all the…