Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in…
Category: Political
Finding Spiritual Meaning
A week filled with senseless public events is a good week to look for meaning. Rabbi Rachel Barenblat found meaning…
International Women's Day: Whose Idea Was It?
International Women’s Day. Clara Zetkin, leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, first proposed the…
Changing the Subject
Members of Or Shalom Synagogue are deeply engaged with Israel. Almost all, teens included, have visited the land at least…
Business Ethics Don'ts
How not to be ethical in business: cause a problem, and then require people to pay you to solve it. This week,…
Economic Enslavement
When the famine becomes severe in Egypt, Joseph allows the Egyptians to buy back the grain they were required to…
Dark Days
The darkest hour is just before the dawn. So they say. On Friday morning, my cat wakes me just before…
Nonviolent Wisdom
Face it. The world is run by people. And we know how people’s minds work. Plato explained it in the…
Have It All
Earlier this summer, the blogosphere buzzed with discussion of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” (Atlantic…