Removing “Kosher” from our Mikveh Terminology
It is revealing that quite regularly women tell me they prefer not to feel like a side of beef being kashered in her immersion process.
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Faith Leaders Bring Life-Saving Water to Migrants in the Desert
Starting at sunrise beneath the brilliant waning moon, I ventured into the desert with 70 clergy and humanitarian aid facilitators. In each of them I saw a face of the Divine.
The Thread, One and Whole: A Review of Devon Spier’s "Heart Map and the Song of Our Ancestors"
“We are not merely connected like two ends of a thread,” the speaker says. “We are the thread./ One and whole.”
A Season to Engage our Grief through Creativity: The Three Weeks
Feeling our grief and pain, however hard it is to do, is what keeps us out of despair
Mah Tovu: Transforming Curses to Blessings in Parshat Balak
What does it look like to change curses into blessings? How might we become beacons of justice and compassion in these times?
A Rabbi Visits the Border and Shares What He Saw
The humanitarian crisis is often far worse than it is made out to be in most of the press.
The Shabbat Tent
The tent is a physical reminder for us to take time to be close to our loved ones and to ourselves.
Reconstructing Yahrzeit
How could I replace an empty exercise with something meaningful?
Art For Healing: A Path from the Sacred Intentionality of Counting the Omer
By holding the intention for the day ... I was able to let come forth what had to come ... in both image and word.
God in Relationship and Shir HaShirim
What would our world be like if we encountered every person with “total presentness,” from the fullness of our being?
