Parents and fellow educators, this update is for you! Our class is a hands-on group of creative artists and thinkers.…
Year: 2011
Dinah: Protection or Destruction?
Dinah goes out to see some girlfriends. Shechem, a local prince, coerces her into sex. He falls in love with…
Random Feline Intuition
On Friday, I was thinking about the Shabbat morning service. Specifically, I wondered what I should say to introduce the…
Expectations: Jacob & Hosea
We meet Jacob the young man as he sets out – Vayetze – to make a life for himself. His…
Spiritual Peacemaking
Earlier this week we had the opportunity at Or Shalom Synagogue to host Eliyahu McLean and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra speaking…
Prayerbook Fun
How do you make “Jewish spiritual wisdom” available to 12-year olds, as they prepare for bar and bat mitzvah? Last…
Why I Love Or Shalom
Prepared for the Annual General Meeting of Or Shalom Synagogue, Vancouver, 2011. You may know that I recently returned…
A Cat's Eye View of Isaac & Rebecca
Ditto, my brother’s cat, is normally quite shy. She follows my brother around and ignores everyone else. But last week,…
Compassionate Camels in Kabbalah
After the death of our ancestral mother Sarah, Abraham decides he would like his son Isaac to marry a relative.…