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.

June 10, 2022 — A brilliant homily for Rosh Hashanah that queers the biblical texts and suggests that there are many allusions in the Bible to the ambiguous, nonbinary gender identity of God.

October 17, 2023 — By reading Dayyan HaEmet, the Judge of Reality, as “the True Judge,” interpreters run from our awareness of the randomness of creation. They seek to provide the cold comfort of a caring God whose plan for us is beyond our understanding.

October 17, 2023 — The longer I work as a climate-change chaplain, the more I’ve come to believe that it’s not change we hate so much as stepping into the unknown without a map or a guide.

August 4, 2015 — Grief begins to feel like the humidity of northeast summer: a ubiquitous discomfort that we’ve come to accept as normal. 

August 17, 2022 —

Bringing the status and symbolism of covenant to the ceremony for welcoming and naming a daughter

February 11, 2025 — Halakhah is in the doing, and our ability to pass that practice down to the next Jewish generation depends on whether or not we can give it the significance it had for the lives of our ancestors.

August 17, 2022 —

These biographical sketches, listed in alphabetical order, are taken from The Journey Continues: The Ma'yan Passover Haggadah and can be used as readings for the four cups

May 8, 2025 — For many people, the liturgy seems disconnected from their concerns, hopes, dreams and challenges.