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Answer the Call
Friday April 4, 2025/6 Nisan 5785 Parashat Vayikra Hevre/Friends, וַיִּקְרָ֖א אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהֹוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו מֵאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד...
Preparing for Freedom
Friday March 28, 2025/28 Adar 5785 Parashat Pekudei/Shabbat Hachodesh Hevre/Friends, This Shabbat - Shabbat Hachodesh - announces the...
Finding Home
Friday March 21, 2025/21 Adar 5785 Parashat Vayakhel Hevre/Friends, Spring has arrived and with it warmer temperatures, melting snow,...
Joy and Mourning
Friday March 14, 2025/14 Adar 5785/Purim Parashat Ki Tisa Hevre/Friends, As Shabbat arrives, the conclusion to the week of shiva for...
Picture This
Friday March 8, 2025/7 Adar 5785/Shabbat Zachor Parashat Tetzave Hevre/Friends, Yesterday Andi and I had the sweetest pleasure of...
Where do you do Jewish?
Friday February 28, 2025/30 Sh'vat 5785/Rosh Chodesh Adar Parashat Terumah Friends/Hevre, Of the many different names for God imagined...
Friends in all kinds of places
Friday February 14, 2025/16 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Yitro Friends/Hevre, Driving back to New York from Montreal this past Tuesday I did...
Don't Just Pray. Do Something.
Friday February 7, 2025/9 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat B'Shalach/Shabbat Shirah Friends/Hevre, It’s a tense moment when this week’s portion,...
Spiritual Alchemy
Friday January 31, 2025/2 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Bo Friends/Hevre, Yesterday we welcomed the new month of Sh'vat during which we'll mark...
These are the names...
Friday January 24, 2025/24 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vaera Friends/Hevre, Emily Damari. Romi Gonen. Doron Steinbrecher. Names seared into our...
And the bush was not consumed...
Friday January 17, 2025/17 Tevet 5785 Parashat Shemot Friends/Hevre, Could it really be happening? Could the hostages finally be coming...
“Be whomever you will be, and may you be blessed in all you become.”
Friday January 10, 2025/10 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vayechi Hevre/Friends, In this week’s final portion of the Book of Genesis, as Jacob nears...
The First Light is the Brightest
Friday December 27, 2024/26 Kislev 5785 Parashat Miketz/Shabbat Hanukkah Hevre/Friends, On the first night of Hanukkah about 75...
How do you know when it's morning?
Friday December 20, 2024/19 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayeshev וַיֹּ֕אמֶר-- אֶת־אַחַ֖י אָנֹכִ֣י מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ [J oseph] answered, I am looking...
"Let it snow, let your winter dreams grow." (from Winter Dreams)
Friday December 13, 2024/12 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, This time next week Andi and I will be back in the Laurentians...
Leaving Home to Come Home
Friday December 6, 2024/5 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, When people ask about my experience growing up in the Orthodox...
Continuity is about more than replication
Friday November 22, 2024/21 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Chaye Sarah Hevre/Friends, The most dramatic story in parashat Chaye Sarah is the one...
My Gratitude Teacher
It sounds so simple: be grateful for all we have. And yet, there are times when it’s just really hard to feel it.
My daughter, My Teacher
Yesterday over coffee after a grueling exercise class, I got a loving but firm lecture from my daughter (when did those tables turn?).
Broken-Hearted Politics
Friday November 8, 2024/7 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Lech Lecha Hevre/Friends, In his 2005 essay on holding together the tensions of...
Maybe Politics Should Take a Page Out of Religion
Friday November 1, 2024/Rosh Chodesh H eshvan Parashat Noa h Hevre/Friends, This past Wednesday in my Contemporary Halakhah (Jewish Law)...
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