Content on Holidays
When God Saves Us In Spite Of Ourselves
Both Judaism and Christianity celebrate spring festivals centered on redemptive stories.
When Success is Still Challenging
Even if you’re deeply secure in your Jewish identity, Christmastime reminds Jews that it’s simply not easy to be a minority culture that needs to respond to the majority culture’s assumptions.
Cleanliness is Part of Godliness
May this be a Chanukah of rededication to cleanliness and that our actions impact our community, not just individuals.
The Quarantine Reviewed
Like all of our work on these High Holy Days, a “User Review” draws us out of our own individual concern and calls us to see the wider world around us.
Repairing the World With Science Tikkun
In this time of fragility, repairing the world is needed more than ever.
We Need to Slow Down. No, For Real This Time.
It might seem counterintuitive to look at a year when we’re hoping to be able to do more and say instead to ourselves, “let’s take a step back,” but I think that makes it all the more crucial.
When “Right and Wrong” Come Down to Luck
We all struggle, we all deal with both good and bad luck, and even our moral judgments are not fully the results of our own decisions.
Religious and Scientific Miracles
As modern, scientific people, we tend to accept only natural explanations for events. Miracles can’t be the “answer” to questions we don’t yet understand.
Rituals Are For Doing: They Make Life Better
A conversation between Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman and Dr. David DeSteno about how religious rituals are designed to help us find relief, connection and solace.
(W)holy Broken
Let the New Year bring a world that is sweet, not inherently, not because we ignore what is sour, but because we work to make it sweet.
Hate Needs a Vaccine
Hate needs a vaccine. As Dr. King Jr said, “the time is always right to do what is right”. Now is the right time.
Unetaneh Tokef in the “Muddy Middle”
For months now, we’ve been making real sacrifices. And since the downsides are clear, apparent and immediate, while the victories are invisible, uncertain and down the road, it’s been really difficult, both emotionally and financially.