Earlier this week we had the opportunity at Or Shalom Synagogue to host Eliyahu McLean and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra speaking…
Category: Wisdom
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…
Occupy Shabbat
“Occupy Shabbat” is an activity organized by Noam Dolgin. The activity itself is very simple. A group meets in the…
Inner Time
Dvar Torah for Parshat Lech-Lecha Link to it here.
Dreams of the Future
Last week I dreamed that a group of people entered my home on Sophia Street. They filed in, one by…
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…