August 17, 2022 —

A teaching on establishing good habits inspired by the Mussar Movement

January 9, 2025 — Understanding ourselves as multiracial Jewish community would far better equip us as U.S. Jews to fight antisemitism.

June 10, 2022 — For four years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has equated Jews with the Israeli government, while U.S. President Donald Trump has made common cause with white nationalists. I wish more Israelis understood why this was so terrifying.

August 17, 2022 —

A prayer and call to action while lighting candles

February 16, 2024 — The text is taken completely from the source, but arranged as a found poem.

February 26, 2024 — Rabbi Marina Yergin shares a new ritual for mourning.

January 31, 2023 — "Jacob teaches, / We weave / And reweave, / The narratives / Of our lives"

August 8, 2022 — What do we do when our Jewish practices are painful, when instead of anticipation and joy one is filled with hesitancy and dread?

December 6, 2015 — They kept telling me that once we got through the terrible summer, the “summer of yuck” as we called it, that I would find light, happiness and health. They tried to reassure me, as we checked each week of chemo off the calendar, that I was one step closer to relief, to a happy ending, to life after cancer. They promised – everyone promised – that I’d feel better, that I’d resume work and parenting and everything in between, and that I’d be able to put cancer far behind me and move on.