Three Days Deep
There have been years when the comedy of Jonah’s book, its crashing ironies, its sly witticisms, God’s smily-affectionate reprimand at the end, have made me smile. But not this year. As I read it over,...
View ArticleTake Me Out To The Ball Game?
Okay, I know I wrote about prayer last time as well. But it has long been my contention that one of the key challenges our involved Jews face, and our uninvolved Jews complain about (with my thanks to...
View ArticleGrowing Pains?
I teach a ‘Melton class’ at my synagogue – the Florence Melton Mini-School four-part curriculum of Jewish studies for adults; it originates in Israel and it’s a great course for what I think of as the...
View ArticleCommunity organizing – what was that, again?
Around my third year of rabbinical school, there began to be something of a buzz around the idea of community organizing. One of the Jewish organizations then in the field picked up on my interest, and...
View Article"The Change"
I consider myself lucky to live in an age where Jewish lifecycle transitions are being creatively marked in progressive Jewish practice; an age which boasts, along with Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremonies,...
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