5:10 am. A beautiful tenor voice rings out in the darkness, calling me to wakefulness, if not yet mindfulness. The…
Category: Spirituality
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…
Rabbis in Dreamtime
Dream: I am a university student, ready to graduate, waiting in my dormitory room. In a folder, I find a…
Random Feline Intuition
On Friday, I was thinking about the Shabbat morning service. Specifically, I wondered what I should say to introduce the…
Spiritual Peacemaking
Earlier this week we had the opportunity at Or Shalom Synagogue to host Eliyahu McLean and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra speaking…
Rabbis Without Borders
Imagine a conference room filled with twenty-three adult students learning together. Imagine those students listening carefully, asking thoughtful questions, and…
Inner Time
Dvar Torah for Parshat Lech-Lecha Link to it here.
Halloween Light
I am sitting at the dining room table writing about Midrash Eleh Ezkerah*, a grotesque fable asking painful questions about suffering…
Spiritual Seeking Within Judaism
Hillary requested a blog entry about my Jewish identity. Perhaps it will help her find words to articulate her ideas…