Content on Holidays
AI and Honesty
Even as technology makes it increasingly tempting to be dishonest, how can we create and preserve a more honest society?
What We Achieved in 2025
Looking back on Sinai and Synapses in 2025 – and towards 2026
Ancestors – Honoring Them; Becoming Them
What does it mean to be a good ancestor in these times?
How Dayeinu Can Help Us Deal with “Enough Already!”
As we look at this world right now, the framing of Dayeinu can be enormously helpful. It requires us to take things one step at a time.
Is Teshuvah Possible?
If we can trace the steps of cause-and-effect all the way back to the Big Bang – and free will does not exist – then what about the possibility of teshuvah (repentance)?
Through Regret
Our regrets help us tell our story, give continuity to our lives. Regret can actually be a special window into our souls.
Maimonides, Prophecy and Science
How did Maimonides see biblical dreams and prophecies, and what does this say about them as parables?
It Can Be Good to Not Feel Good
Tisha B’Av can remind us that we can hold multiple emotions at the same time, and that sadness is a crucial part of our humanity.
Rethinking “Heroism”
This Hanukkah, so many of us are struggling with how we respond to not just a spiritual or intellectual war but an actual military war. How can we find the light?
What We Want Isn’t Always What We Need
Celebrating what we already have can allow us both to enjoy our blessings now and to build for the future.
Two Kinds of Darkness, Two Kinds of Light, Two Kinds of Torah
Sometimes Torah is a light powerful like the sun. But today, the light of Torah we need is more like the light of the moon.
Six Words for Life
As you walk forward into the new year of 5784, what six words will you speak on your journey?