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Synagogue Dues are Dead: What’s the Price Point at Which Quitting the Temple is Impossible?
March 7, 2021Synagogue Dues are Dead, so what’s the price point at which quitting the temple becomes unnecessary or nearly impossible? How Congregation Or Ami transformed our funding model. Read more
After 11 deaths in 11 days, I Had it Out with God
February 4, 2021After 11 deaths in 11 days, I had it out with God. I realized with over 419,000 dead in American fromCovid-19 decimating, it was time for that conversation with the Creator. Read more
Drive Thru Judaism: An Antidote to Quarantined Community
October 27, 2020Drive Thru Judaism, a series of poignant experiences that, kept people safely in their cars, while providing poignant Jewish experiences uplifted our quarantined congregation, banishing loneliness and bringing spiritual sustenance to a community in quarantine. Read more
3 Previously Banned Behaviors to Embrace these Home High Holy Days
September 21, 2020The new normal of distanced coronavirus kehilla tefillah (communal prayer) offers new ways to enhance your Home High Holy Days. Consider these 3 previously banned behaviors to warm up your worship. They just might enhance your experience. Just please think twice before sharing them with your clergy. They might not… Read more
A Psalm for Cities on Fire
May 31, 2020A Psalm for our cities on fire, after the killing of George Floyd Read more
Testing Our Synagogue’s Vision During Quarantine: Disruptive Judaism 2
May 7, 2020When confronted with the first of many “shelter at home” quarantine orders, many houses of worship struggled with a perplexing dilemma: Who are we if we couldn’t be together? The story of one synagogue’s journey to answer that question illustrates the power of perspective and the potential of pushing through… Read more
Letter to Your Future Self: Hold onto those Silver Linings
April 19, 2020Write a letter or a make a video to your future self who will exist five or six months from now. Remind yourself about the silver linings you want to continue to embrace. Maybe, just maybe, you will listen to yourself. Read more
Make It Count, COVID-19 Style (it’s the Omer after all)
April 12, 2020It’s time Jews begin counting. Start to count to correct your life. By counting, we just might convince ourselves that once we are able to leave our homes, we might want to hold onto some of these wholesome new behaviors to enhance our lives and deepen our love of living. Read more
COVID-Kavod CONNECTION: Healing the Social Isolation of a Viral Death
April 10, 2020COVID-19 could kill us, but it shouldn’t also bring shame upon us or our infected loved ones. And it won’t. Unless we play into the growing stigma that is at once immoral and dangerous to our mental health. If we play into that stigma, then COVID-19 will do both: shame… Read more