The prophet Isaiah speaks of a peaceable kingdom. But can life be peaceful? A Mother Grieves The day of my birth…
Category: Family
Teshuvah: Can it Change the Timeline of Your Past?
Can teshuvah – repentance, renewal, and return to God – change the past? In Parshat Haazinu (Deut. 32:1-32:52) Moses speaks to…
Real Love
At our Shabbat gatherings at synagogue, we read from the Torah about the adventures of our ancestors in the wilderness,…
Questions
Stability. Listening. Change. The cycle appears in all our lives. Each of us strikes a different balance. To whom do…
Spiritual not Religious
Shabbos dinner with young university students is an adventure. Charles and I warm them up with a few glasses of…
Interfaith or Multicultural?
Young statisticians in love. Can you imagine their wedding? If you do, please don’t imagine anything stuffy or stilted. Because…
The Ninth of Av
When my mother, of blessed memory, was in her mid-fifties, she attended a self-help psychology workshop. Afterwards, she said, “This…
Listen to Your Mother
Watch out, graduating students. Your faculty may give you some brief words of advice. “Brief words?” wondered my colleague P.…
Resisting Teen Radicalization
Recently I attended a multi-faith symposium on youth crime prevention with the specific focus “Tackling Radicalization in Faiths.” Speakers included the Imam…