June 10, 2022 — Are we going to subscribe to an ageist and ableist medical model of decision-making driven by profit, and outmoded ideas about the infallibility of science? Or are we going to seek ethical alternatives that make life-and-death choices more equitable?

January 29, 2025 — A summary of facts, characters, and holidays pertaining to the month of Shevat

August 30, 2022 —

A mindfulness teaching on matzah, includes a downloadable PDF for inclusion in your seder

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?

August 30, 2022 —

Discussion questions related to modern liberation struggles

August 17, 2022 — "We break open / To all that we will encounter"

January 14, 2025 — When I remember water, I allow myself to be transformed, to remember myself in utero, untouched by the violence of this world.

December 24, 2024 —

An article for Jewish and interfaith families about coping with the all-encompassing nature of Christmas and the Jewish calendar

May 23, 2023 — As Rabbi Barbara Penzner reviews her 28 years as senior solo rabbi of Temple Hillel B’nai Torah, a small, urban Reconstructionist congregation in West Roxbury, she told JewishBoston that she feels much gratitude for the community she and her congregation have built over the decades.