Parents and fellow educators, this update is for you! Our class is a hands-on group of creative artists and thinkers.…
Category: Jewish Renewal
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…
Rabbis Without Borders
Imagine a conference room filled with twenty-three adult students learning together. Imagine those students listening carefully, asking thoughtful questions, and…
Spiritual Seeking Within Judaism
Hillary requested a blog entry about my Jewish identity. Perhaps it will help her find words to articulate her ideas…
Harvest of Symbols
Early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Here it’s a basic physical fact of life that weather turns cold. Sensitive plants…
Wisdom Tradition
Our world is filled with information about appearances: which car to drive, which lipstick to wear, what to say in…
Bnei Mitzvah in the Garden
At the beginning of our first class meeting we were all a bit nervous…could we have a good class with…
Pluralism
Here on Sophia Street, we enjoy the same crazy weather as the rest of Vancouver. Sometimes we look out at…