Words that breathe

In a fearful world, Judaism still calls us to bring blessing into brokenness. Rabbi Paul Kipnes asks: What does it mean to be a Jew today?

What does it mean to be a Jew today? A reflection on identity, tradition, and justice in a complex world.

Holy One of Blessing, Source of Wisdom, Wisely guide our children Through the doorways to their future. May they meet Teachers who...

Transform the High Holy Day Appeal now and your synagogue just might nurture a greater culture of giving. Then, defying the...

We sat around tables— round like the world we wished for, flat like the matzah we broke, layered like the stories we shared. Two seders....

Jazz was my sanctuary that night in Chicago. Michelle and I had slipped into the Jazz Showcase , where saxophonist Bobby Watson , the...

This week I said goodbye to my rabbi, my mentor, my friend. In that moment, I lost one of the great anchors of my life. Rabbi Stanley M....

In the beginning— before beginnings had breath— there was tohu vavohu, not just chaos, but collapse. Not just void, but the violence of...

מקור זיכרון ומשמעות Makor Zicharon u’Mashma’ot Source of Memory and Meaning, I turn to You with a heart heavy with love. My beloved—...

What does it take for a teenager to stand in a senator’s office, look a legislative aide in the eye, and say, “This is personal.” For the...

This week, I made a special trip to Gelson’s. Not for Shabbat flowers, not for wine, not even for the babka (though it took everything in...

What does it take for a teenager to stand in a senator’s office, look a legislative aide in the eye, and say, “This is personal”?

When I was in elementary school, my mom took me to visit a fire station. I cannot remember if it was a family outing, a school trip or...

Source of beginnings, Teach us to treasure time: To taste the sweetness of its swift seconds, To seek truth amidst its trials, To trust...

“Wow! God was in this place, and I did not know it.” So declared our biblical ancestor Jacob as he awoke from a dream. Once a deceiver...

For the Calabasas City Council Reorganization Meeting And the Installation of Peter Kraut as Mayor Eternal One, Makor HaBrachot , Source...

This past Shabbat, I stood in two sacred spaces that illuminated the beauty, fragility and resilience of life. One moment, I found myself...

As parents, we spend years mastering the art of raising children. Guiding, protecting and nurturing them through childhood and...