June 10, 2022 — The integrity of any community depends on honesty in business and all interpersonal transactions, teaches the book of Deuteronomy. Fraudulence is an abomination.

June 10, 2022 — As individuals and families, as communities and nations, we can best survive with one another and not against each other.

November 30, 2023 — Offering lovingkindness to oneself and others in times of intense pain.

May 31, 2024 — Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s arguments against chosenness still ring true.

January 7, 2024 — We, like Abraham, must be concerned with justice and with the innocent.

April 4, 2024 — The biblical narrative of the Exodus from slavery understands the reparations taken by the Israelites to be an essential part of the redemption from servitude.

September 29, 2024 — What is the prayer that penetrates the body and mind to awaken to the Power that makes for Connection?

February 14, 2025 — The traditional prayer for the state of Israel, more literally titled A Prayer for Peace for the State, made no distinction between peace, survival and victory. It is time to make such distinctions.

May 2, 2025